ESSAY: EMPOWERED WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE A BEACON OF HOPE
In an essay marking International Women’s Day, ROBERT DUNN, chief executive of Opportunity International Australia, reflects on the key role women are playing in lifting families out of poverty in the developing world…
Christian Solidarity Worldwide among international coalition calling for North Korea to be held accountable for alleged “crimes against humanity”
Religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide is among a coalition of groups calling for the North Korean Government to be held to account for alleged crimes against humanity. The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK), whose members include the UK based organisation, this week voiced its support for two UN reports […]
WORDPLAY CHALLENGE #9
Can you work out which famous passage of the Bible this represents?…
BOOKS: THE REFUGEE CRISIS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN
JANEY DEMEO, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about a new book capturing a child’s eye view of Europe’s refugee crisis…
President Trump’s executive order calls for report into honour killings in US
RNS As part of its goal to protect “the nation from foreign terrorist entry”, President Trump’s new executive order calls for a report on the number of honor killings carried out in the US by “foreign nationals.” Civil liberties advocates say the focus on honor killings, which a 2014 Justice Department reports shows make up […]
LOVE LETTERS
At uni I dated a girl who became my wife. We lived 300 kilometres apart and wrote lots of letters to each other (this was before email). Those love letters have become treasures to us. I could read you some, but you’d find them boring. They were all about the mundane things of life. God’s ‘love […]
PAKISTAN: SIX YEARS ON, JUSTICE THWARTED IN THE CASE OF SHAHBAZ BHATTI
World Watch Monitor reports on claims from Pakistan’s Christian community that, six years after his assassination, authorities are not doing enough to ensure the killers of murder Pakistani Christian MP Shahbaz Bhatti are brought to justice…
Catholic Church in The Philippines is not “against” President Duterte, says spokesman
The Roman Catholic Church in The Philippines is not “against” controversial President Rodrigo Duterte, according to a church representative. Fr Jerome Secillano, spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, told news agency Fides that the church “has nothing personal against Duterte”. “The church is simply critical of issues related to human rights, justice, respect […]