ESSAY: WHY AUSTRALIA NEEDS ITS FIRST AMBASSADOR FOR DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
ERIN RYAN, of CBM Australia, sets out why Australia needs to appoint an Ambassador for Disability-Inclusive Development to help ensure people with disabilities in the developing world don’t remain ‘invisible’ when it comes to our aid and foreign policy…
CHRISTMAS: SIGHT’S (ALTERNATIVE) GIFT LIST
Looking for an alternative idea for a Christmas gift? Each year on Sight we publish an alternative gift list featuring 10 ideas for gifts that are a little bit different (and all about investing in the Kingdom of God). So, in no particular order, here’s this year’s list…
France will soon have a new crime: online obstruction of abortion
RNS France will soon create a new crime that will make someone running an anti-abortion website as liable to a lawsuit as a protester blocking the door to an abortion clinic. The new crime, called the “online obstruction of abortion,” won’t be an outright ban, because that would amount to government censorship. But the law will be so […]
STRANGESIGHTS: PANTO HORSES GALLOP THROUGH LONDON; THE WORLD’S LONGEST CHRISTMAS DAY?; AND, CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UNDER ATTACK…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
16th APRIL – EASTER SUNDAY
Jews are most highly educated of any religious group, study finds
Jews are more highly educated that any other major religious group with an average of 13.4 years of formal schooling while Christians come in second with 9.3 years, according to the results of a new global study on religion and education by the US-based Pew Research Center. The study also shows that Muslims and Hindus […]
WOW!: LIGHT-FILLED CHURCH DESIGN SHOWCASED IN AWARDS
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at some of the winners in this year’s Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Architecture and Art Awards…