More than 17 million hungry in Yemen in one of world’s “worst hunger crises”, says UN agency
More than 17 million people are hungry in the conflict-wracked African nation of Yemen with 20 of the country’s 22 governates in an “emergency” or “crisis” situation with regard to food security, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The FAO, citing data from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released this week, […]
IMMIGRATION: HELPING DUNKIRK’S MIGRANTS – GOD’S WILL OR COLLUSION IN ILLEGAL ENTRY?
ABIGAIL FRYMANN ROUCH, of World Watch Monitor, looks at how one church in northern France is reaching out to migrants…
STRANGESIGHTS: COOKIE DOUGH CONES; RUSSIA LAUNCHES COSMONAUT SEARCH; AND OLLY’S “ENTHUSIASTIC” EFFORT…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
BOOKS: PUTTING GOD AT THE CENTRE OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
DARREN CRONSHAW reads Noel Castellanos’ autobiographical book about his heart for the poor and marginalised…
THIS LIFE: WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, GOD STILL HAS A PLAN
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on the struggle between our plans for our lives – and God’s…
US House of Representatives members ask Trump to retain ambassador to combat anti-Semitism
RNS Following a report that President Trump is thinking of scrapping the ambassador position assigned to combat global anti-Semitism, a bipartisan group of 167 US House members sent a letter asking him to appoint one soon. The letter, released Monday, asks Mr Trump to “maintain and prioritize” the appointment in a time of rising anti-Semitism. “During […]