Churches evacuate and shelter migrants after fire devastates Dunkirk camp in northern France
World Watch Monitor Local churches in Dunkirk helped to evacuate terrified migrants late on Monday night as a devastating fire spread through their camp in northern France. La Linière camp in Grande-Synthe, just outside Dunkirk, housed an estimated 1,500 migrants, including a handful of Christian converts, but has now been reduced to “a heap of ashes”, a […]
‘Typical’ Aussie a 38-year-old female who is married with two children, according to preliminary Census data release
The ‘typical’ Australian is a 38-year-old female who is married with two children, has completed Year 12 and lives in a three bedroom house with two motor vehicles, according to preliminary data from last year’s Census in Australia. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday also showed that the typical Australian male […]
Endangered Anglican cathedrals prompt Church of England review
RNS Pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels are projected onto Durham Cathedral in Durham, northern England, in 2009. PICTURE: Reuters/Nigel Roddis The future of England’s cathedrals – often described as the crown jewel of the nation’s architectural heritage – will be examined by a special Church of England working group following a series of disastrous financial crises […]
SIGHT-SEEING: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER EXEGESIS? READING THE BIBLE IN THE REAL WORLD
SIU FUNG WU, in an article first published by Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society, reflects on what it means as a Bible-loving Christian to follow Jesus in the world today…
A GOD WHO SUFFERS WITH US
Critics of Christianity have often mocked – ‘Surely God could think of a better way to save us than sending His Son to die on a cross.’ FLYING FREE. PICTURE: Lois Carroll/www.freeimages.com Don’t they realise the cross poignantly demonstrates God’s solidarity with all those who have ever suffered? God could have sent a postcard. […]