ESSAY: STRIPPED OF HIS TITLE AND ILLEGALLY REPLACED, ERITREA’S SPIRITUAL LEADER LANGUISHES IN DENTENTION
Rev THOMAS J REESE, a commisioner on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, explains why Patriarch Antonios of Eritrea is one of his “heroes”…
Pakistani Christian boy, 16, charged with blasphemy for discussing his faith
World Watch Monitor A 16-year-old Pakistani Christian boy has been charged with blasphemy for talking with a colleague about his belief in Jesus, the second such incident in a month. The news agency reported that Shahzad Masih, 16, a cleaner at a hospital in the city of Dinga (near the religiously conservative city of Gujrat), […]
Children increasingly targeted in fighting in Central African Republic, says UNICEF
Children are increasingly being targeted in renewed conflict which has broken out in the Central African Republic, UNICEF warned this week. The UN Children’s Fund said recent fighting had led to an increasing number of violent acts committed against children, including murders, abductions, rape and recruitment into armed groups. The organisation said the number of atrocities […]
STRANGESIGHTS: QUOTING JANE AUSTEN; LARRY’S BIG WIN; AND, A SURPRISE WAKE-UP…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
BOOKS: MAKING SENSE OF A TUMULTUOUS WORLD
NILS VON KALM reads Mark Sayers’ latest book, Strange Days…
Hundreds of boys abused at German choir school, says report
AP/RNS At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys’ choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to a report released Tuesday. Allegations involving the Domspatzen choir in Regensburg, which was run for 30 years by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI’s elder brother, were among a spate of revelations of […]