OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: ONTO CORINTH
In his series on the Acts of the Apostles, BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what may have been the reasons for Paul’s decision to move from Athens to Corinth as recounted in Acts 8…
Algerian Christian appeals sentence of a year in prison for “insulting” Facebook post
with World Watch Monitor/Morning Star News An Algerian Christian has been sentenced to a year in prison for a Facebook post deemed to have insulted Islam. On 8th January, a court in Bouira, located 100 kilometres east of Algiers, found Samir Chamek, 34, guilty of insulting Islam and its prophet over items he posted on his […]
At least 5,000 killed trying to cross Mediterranean in 2016, says IOM
At least 5,000 would-be migrants were killed attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 – more than in any other year, according to figures from the UN International Organization for Migration. The organisation said that at least 363,348 people made the crossing – made from Italy to Greece during 2016 – but that at least 5,079 […]
ON THE SCREEN: DESPITE ITS PROMISE, ‘COLLATERAL BEAUTY’ DOESN’T GET BEYOND THE “MILDLY DIVERTING”
With an all-star cast and some interesting concepts to explore, Collateral Beauty promises much but, as DAVID ADAMS finds, doesn’t quite come together as we might have hoped…
A year on, Swiss missionary’s captors in Mali release second “proof-of-life” video
World Watch Monitor A video released by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Tuesday shows a new proof of life of the Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockly who is being held captive in Mali. The two minute, 17 second video shows a woman – head covered by a black veil – who identifies herself as […]