Baptist pensioners fined in Kazakhstan for worshipping in house meeting
Seven Baptists – including two aged in their late 70s – were fined for meeting for worship in a home without state registration in Kazakhstan this week. Forum 18 reports that the congregation is a member of the Baptist Council of Churches and has adopted a policy of civil disobedience by refusing to pay the many […]
Mel Gibson discusses possible sequel to ‘The Passion of the Christ’
A follow-up film to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ would be called The Resurrection, the actor and director revealed last weekend. Speaking to evangelist Greg Laurie at the three night SoCal Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, California, Mr Gibson said he was in discussions with Randall Wallace, the writer of Braveheart, about a sequel to […]
STRANGESIGHTS: OF GRAVY WRESTLING; THE BRIGADIER PENGUIN; A HICCUP IN THE MAIL; AND, A CURVACEOUS JAPANESE CHURCH…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
WATER: WOMEN AND GIRLS SPEND 200 MILLION HOURS COLLECTING WATER EVERY DAY, SAYS UNICEF
With World Water Week underway in Stockholm, DAVID ADAMS reports on the disproportionate “cost” collecting water from sources outside their homes has for women and girls around the world…