WOW! HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY IS BEING USED TO TACKLE SLUM FIRES
DAVID ADAMS looks at how World Vision aims to newly developed technology to tackle slum fires in Bangladesh…
Meriam Ibrahim says sharia law “causing many to suffer”
World Watch Monitor Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to hang and forced to give birth in jail, says her story represents the ordeals of “many” Christians in Islamic countries forced to live under sharia law. In a rare public appearance since she was helped to travel to the US two years ago, she told a […]
Canadian study finds churches with conservative theology still growing
RNS Canadian researchers are revisiting a hotly debated sociological question: Why do some churches decline while others succeed? Since the 1960s, overall membership in mainline Protestant Christian churches has been dropping in both the US and Canada. But some congregations have continued to grow, and a team of researchers believes it now knows why. It’s the conservative […]
THEORIES COME AND GO
When you first study the Bible at university level, it can be a bit overwhelming. You have to learn about the various theories and methods used to study the Bible! Hermeneutics, liberation theology, higher criticism, redactors, editors, source theory. Some of these methods seem hell-bent on cutting the Scriptures up until there is nothing left! […]
Rwandan bishops apologize for role in 1994 genocide
RNS Roman Catholic bishops in Rwanda have issued an apology for the role played by individual clergy and church members in the 1994 genocide in which nearly a million ethnic Tutsis and Hutus were killed. On Sunday, the apology was read aloud in all Catholic churches in the local Kinyarwanda dialect. It came at the end […]
BANGLADESH: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES INCLUDING CHRISTIANS FACE “ALMOST DAILY” HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, SAYS REPORT
DAVID ADAMS looks at the findings of a new report from UK-based Minority Rights Group International on the situation facing religious minorities, including Christians, in Bangladesh…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF OUR WORSHIP
Lamenting the self-focus found in some approaches to worship, NILS VON KALM calls for a shift in focus from the individual to the corporate…