Australian humanitarian and human rights organisations join in call for ‘special intake’ of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to be resettled by March next year
Australian humanitarian and human rights organisations have joined in calling for the Federal Government to resettle a promised 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq by the first quarter of 2017. The call comes a year after then Prime Minister Tony Abbott made the pledge to resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the two Middle Eastern […]
CASTING THE NET: BOUNDLESS
DAVID ADAMS looks at Boundless, a Focus on the Family website aimed at Millennials…
Algerian Christian’s blasphemy sentence reduced to three years
World Watch Monitor Algerian Christian Slimane Bouhafs has had his five-year jail sentence for committing blasphemy against Islam and its prophet on social media reduced to three years following an appeal. A fine of 100,000 dinars ($US900) was also dropped. Mr Bouhafs, 49, had appealed against the five-year sentence, which was the maximum possible punishment […]
LIFESTORY: MARATHONERS GO THE DISTANCE FOR THOSE AT THE END OF THE ROAD
In an article first published by ASSIST News Service, STEVE REES talks to Ryan Hall, one of the world’s fastest marathon runners, and Matthew Burnett, a pastor who has defied his doctor’s prediction that he would never run in the event, about their plans to run run seven marathons within seven days on all seven continents…
REFUGEES: SPIKE IN MIGRANT DEATHS IN CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN WHILE UNICEF SOUNDS ALARM ON RISING NUMBERS OF DISPLACED CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD
DAVID ADAMS reports on UNHCR figures showing a spike in the number of deaths in the central Mediterranean this year and a report from UNICEF sounding the alarm over the rising number of children being forced to leave their homes…