SNAPSHOT: ABOVE CAPPADOCIA, TURKEY
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Iran sentences four more Christians to 10 years in jail for ‘missionary activities’
World Watch Monitor One Iranian and three Azerbaijani Christians have been found guilty of “missionary activities” and “actions against national security” in Iran and sentenced to 10 years in prison. World Watch Monitor understands that the three Azerbaijanis – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Bahram Nasibov – are unlikely to serve their sentences because they […]
Church communities pray for greater action on African crisis as G20 meets in Hamburg
Church communities in Germany and around the world will pause at 6pm on Friday, 7th July, to pray for justice and peace around the world as the G20 summit gets underway in Hamburg. The move comes after the World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches joined in issuing a ‘Call to […]
Longtime Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls dies at 80
RNS Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls gestures during a news conference in the Holy See press office at the Vatican in April, 2005. PICTURE Tony Gentile/Reuters. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who transformed the Vatican’s press office into a modern media operation, has died. The former Vatican spokesman, 80, was a Spaniard and the first layperson and journalist to […]
CHURCH: ATTENDING RELIGIOUS SERVICES IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH. NOW WHAT?
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on yet another study showing the health benefits of attending church services…
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: ATTEMPTED RETRIAL
In his commentary on Acts, BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what chapter 25 says about attempts to have Paul returned to Jerusalem so he could be killed along the way…