New university in Erbil, Iraq, offers fresh hope for young lives disrupted by IS
World Watch Monitor The new Catholic University of Erbil wants to create a diverse and inclusive community and has more female than male students. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Displaced young Iraqis whose education was halted by Islamic State’s violent seizure of territory are receiving a vital opportunity to catch up and train for professional life, […]
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘WORN AT THE FIRST EASTER HAT PARADE’
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Australian Christian Lobby renews calls for motion declaring Islamic State’s persecution of Christians and other religious minorities ‘genocide’
The Australian Christian Lobby has renewed calls for the Australian Government to prioritise a parliamentary vote recognising the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities by followers of the so-called Islamic State as ‘genocide’. A bi-partisan motion was moved in Federal Parliament in late November but has not yet been brought to a vote. ACL […]
EU envoy calls on Sudan to release two convicted of aiding Czech Christian ‘spy’
World Watch Monitor The Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the EU, Jan Figel, who visited Sudan in mid-March, has called for the pardon of two jailed Sudanese men, one a leader in the Sudan Church of Christ. Both men were sentenced with the now-released Czech aid worker Petr […]
THIS LIFE: WHY DOES GOD ALLOW BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN?
US columnist CAROL ROUND addresses one of the big questions of life…
ARCHAEOLOGY: JEWISH GRAVES UNEARTHED IN ROME TESTIFY TO COMMUNITY’S PERSECUTION
JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, of Religion News Service, reports on how recent archaeological finds are offering new insights into how Jewish people were persecuted in Rome more than 500 years ago…