HISTORY: MENNONITES SEEK TO COME TO TERMS WITH NAZI COLLABORATION
BEN GOOSSEN, in an article first published by Religion News Service, looks at how Mennonites in Paraguay and beyond are coming to terms with their past…
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: ANOTHER TRIP THROUGH MACEDONIA
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his series looking at Acts with an examination of what followed when Paul left Ephesus for Macedonia and Greece…
US religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid
RNS US religious leaders, including some who spoke at President Trump’s inauguration, are calling on Congress to protect foreign aid that helps the needy across the globe. Mr Trump’s 2018 budget proposal calls for $US25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development. That’s a decrease of $US10.1 billion, or […]
Bear Grylls to remain UK’s ‘Chief Scout’ until 2020
UK Christian adventurer, writer and TV host Bear Grylls will remain Britain’s “Chief Scout” until 2020, the country’s Scout Association announced this week. Mr Grylls was appointed Chief Scout in 2009 – the youngest the organisation has had – and the Scout Association said he had since “proved an outstanding figurehead for scouting, spearheading a […]
THE JOY JESUS GIVES IS NOT BOTTLED IN FERMENTATION
STAN HUNT, from Queensland, responds to news Coopers Brewery has released a special commemorative beer in light of Bible Society Australia’s bicentenary…
ESSAY: AFTER SIX YEARS, SYRIA A PATCHWORK OF MISERY
After six years of war in Syria, TIM COSTELLO, chief advocate for World Vision Australia, reflects on why Australia needs to continue to agitate for peace in the nation…
A year after Agatu massacre, Christians continue to be killed in Benue, Nigeria
A year after Muslim Fulani herdsmen slaughtered an estimated 300 predominantly Christian farmers in Agatu, Benue state, deadly attacks continued in the state the first 10 weeks of the year, sources have told Morning Star News. The organisation reports that more than 29 Christians in Agatu and other rural areas were reported to have died […]
LIFESTORY: TANZANIAN WIDOW OVERCOMES GRIEF OF HUSBAND”S MURDER DURING SPATE OF ATTACKS IN EAST AFRICA
JULIUS MBALUTO, of World Watch Monitor, speaks to widow Mary Lunyamila Meshack about her life since her husband, a Christian youth worker, was killed in an attack apparently targeting Christians at their church in northern Tanzania in 2013…