Man convicted over Charleston church killings sentenced to death in US
A man who killed nine black people attending a Bible study in an historic church in the US city of Charleston has been sentenced to death. Dylann Storm Roof, 22, was last month convicted of 33 federal offences, relating to the June, 2015, shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Those killed were aged between […]
STRANGESIGHTS: SPOTIFY’S NEW JOB FOR OBAMA?; A WORLD RECORD SUNDAE; AND, WHAT HAPPENED WHILE YOU SLEPT…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Four arrests for Copt cathedral bombing in Egypt which killed 28
World Watch Monitor Egyptian police have arrested four people in the wake of the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo’s Coptic Christian cathedral last month, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The death toll from the bombing at a chapel next to St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo has risen to 28, the Health […]
Christian groups express ‘grave concerns’ about Trump agenda, appointments
RNS The National Council of Churches and several other Christian organisations have released a statement expressing “grave concerns” with President-elect Donald Trump’s policies and picks to lead his Cabinet and other departments. “We urge President-Elect Donald Trump, who has said he shares our Christian faith, to take seriously his responsibility to bring our nation together and […]