THE WORD: LADY SOPHIA (WISDOM), PART ONE
In the first of a two part article, LLOYD HARKNESS looks at Greek word for wisdom – sophia…
US missionary, among first convicted under Russia’s new ‘anti-missionary’ law, vows to keep fighting
World Watch Monitor Two months after Russia’s so-called “anti-missionary law” came into effect, an American missionary who lost his appeal, after being one of the first convicted under the law, says it is his “duty” to “press the case as far as I can”. Don Ossewaarde, who has lived in Oryol (about 350 kilometres south […]
REFORMATION: GERMAN PRESIDENT AND DANISH QUEEN ATTEND CELEBRATION AT CHURCH WHERE LUTHER NAILED 95 THESES
STEPHEN BROWN, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches website, reports on the rededication of the church where the Lutheran Reformation began…
At least eight feared dead after Hurricane Matthew tears across Caribbean nations
At least eight people are feared dead after Hurricane Matthew – the most powerful storm in the Caribbean in almost 10 years – tore through Caribbean nations including Haiti. The Category Four storm, which reportedly had winds of 230 kph, made landfall in eastern Cuba Tuesday night after earlier passing through Haiti and neighbouring Dominican […]
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: NEW LIGHT SHED ON MARTYRED SCOTTISH HOLOCAUST HEROINE JANE HAINING
CHARLES GARDNER, in a story first published by ASSIST News Service, writes about how new discoveries of a will and photographs have provided fresh insight into the life of martyred Scottish Christian Jane Haining…