ORIGINS: THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES
The XXXIst Olympic Games kick off in Rio de Janeiro this weekend so we thought it a timely moment to take a look at where it all began for the Olympic movement. In the first of a two part account, DAVID ADAMS this week takes a look at the ancient Olympic Games…
India’s Supreme Court rules compensation for country’s worst anti-Christian violence “not enough”
World Watch Monitor India’s Supreme Court Chief Justice has ordered that adequate compensation has not yet been paid to the victims – in 2008 – of religiously-motivated violence by Hindus against Christians in the Kandhamal district of Odisha (formerly Orissa), eastern India. The success of the petition, brought by Raphel Cheenath, the local Catholic Archbishop […]
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS (ACTS 1 TO 12)
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his continuing series looking at the Acts of the Apostles, gives an overview of chapters one to 12…
World Vision Australia CEO shocked at charges against Gaza manager
World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello has expressed his shock over allegations that a manager in the organisation’s Gaza office has passed millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas to pay fighters and buy weapons, but said World Vision had been presented with no evidence to support the charges. Mohemmad El Halabi, who […]