ON THE SCREEN: BEN-HUR SACRIFICES DEPTH FOR A FAST-MOVING PLOT
DAVID ADAMS watches the latest swords-and-sandals epic out of Hollywood, Ben-Hur…
Crowded lives continue to impact teens’ Bible reading in US, study finds
Crowded lives continue to significantly impact the amount of time America’s teenagers spend reading the Bible, an annual study of US teenagers’ relationship with the book has found. The 2016 Teen State of the Bible research, commissioned by the American Bible Society and conducted by Barna Research, shows that while 69 per cent of US […]
EGYPT: COPTIC CHURCH REJECTS AMENDMENTS TO LONG-AWAITED CHURCH BUILDING LAW
World Watch Monitor reports on the the reaction of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church to changes to a proposed law regulating religious buildings which it says “do not consider Egyptian Christian citizens’ equal rights” against a background of ongoing persecution…