DEATH PENALTY: BIBLE BELT STATE WITH HIGHEST EXECUTION RATE IN US CONSIDERS DEATH PENALTY FLAWS
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, in an article first published by Religion News Service, reports on how Christians are grappling with the idea of the death penalty in the US state of Oklahoma…
Acquitted Ethiopian men don’t have to pay for church they didn’t destroy
World Watch Monitor Three Ethiopians do not now have to pay compensation for a church which, in January, they were acquitted of charges of destroying. All Protestant Christians, the three men – Tibebu Mekuria, Dawit Jemberu, and Belete Tilahun were freed on 18th January after a Supreme Court judge acquitted them on 13th January. The three had […]
Catholic missionary named as recipient of international award in recognition of humanitarian work
An Irish Columban Catholic missionary, Fr Shay Cullen, has been named as the 2017 recipient of the Martin Buber Award in recognition of his internationally acclaimed work in support of human rights in The Philippines. Fr Shay established the PREDA Foundation in The Philippines in 1974, an organisation which has since been active in rescuing […]
STRANGESIGHTS: OF GOLDEN TICKETS; LONG TITLES; AND, BLACK ICECREAM…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
ENGAGEMENT WITH ISLAM: FRANCIS AND BENEDICT – TWO POPES, TWO DIVERGENT APPROACHES
CHRISTOPHER LAMB, in an article published by Religion News Service, looks at the two different approaches taken by Pope Benedict XVI and his papal successor, Pope Francis, to engaging with Islam…
ESSAY: FOUR STEPS TO ACHIEVING YOUR DREAMS
SUZZANNE LAIDLAW, well-known Australian business coach and among the speakers at the upcoming inaugural Opportunity Women4Women Conference in Perth next week, talks about how dreams – like the alleviation of poverty – can become reality through a simple, four step process…