Lasers reveal long-hidden Roman frescoes with Biblical themes
RNS This fresco shows Christ flanked by two saints who were believed to be Christian martyrs. It has been restored by laser technology used inside the Domitilla catacombs for the first time in a project backed by the Vatican. PICTURE: Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology Ancient frescoes have been rediscovered inside the 1,600-year-old Domitilla catacombs […]
BOOKS: JOHN ORTBERG’S ‘THE ME I WANT’ TO BE A “THOUGHT-PROVOKING” SMALL GROUP RESOURCE
DARREN CRONSHAW reflects on his recent experience using John Ortberg’s small group resource, The Me I Want To Be…
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I was a pain of a child. When I didn’t like something to eat, I’d make a huge fuss about not wanting it, about allergies, about poison, breaking the UN convention on the rights of a child if you fed it to me, etcetera, etcetera. PICTURE: Pexels.com When my parents finally forced some down my […]
Pakistani sewage worker dies after three doctors on Ramadan fast allegedly refused to touch him
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani Christian sewerage cleaner has died after three doctors allegedly refused to treat him till his sludge-covered body had been washed; they said their Ramadan fast would be invalid (“makruh”) because he was “unclean” and also belonged to a low caste. (The word for low caste, “chuhra”, especially derogatory, is reserved for sanitary workers and […]
SIGHT-SEEING: PENTECOST AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
BRIAN NIXON, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, looks at who the Bible says the Holy Spirit is…
Australia will remain defiant in face of “Islamist terrorism”, says PM, after attack in Melbourne
Australia will remain defiant in the face of Islamist terrorism, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said this morning following an incident in Melbourne late yesterday in which a man was killed and a woman held hostage. A man, since identified as Yacqub Khayre, 29, of Roxburgh Park, was shot dead by police shortly before 6pm, […]