ESSAY: ‘MISS-READING’ THE BIBLE
AMANDA JACKSON, executive director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s Women’s Commission, says it’s time we had a look at what the Bible really says about relationships between men and women…
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, ACTS 1 TO 25
BRUCE C WEARNE pauses in his examination of Acts, to look at the wider context around Paul’s arrest, imprisonment and subsequent appeal to Caesar…
Iranian Christian released on bail after three week hunger strike
World Watch Monitor An Iranian Christian sentenced to 15 years in jail has been released on bail, three weeks after writing an open letter to the authorities, asking what he had done to “make you hate me this much” and declaring that he had decided to “terminate my life slowly” through a hunger strike. Amin Afshar-Naderi, […]
Yemen facing “vicious combination” of starvation and world’s worst cholera outbreak
Yemen is facing a “vicious combination” of extreme food shortages and what is the world’s worst cholera outbreak, according to a statement from three UN agencies released this week. In a joint statement released after their visit to the war-torn nation, Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, and […]
BOOKS: REAL-LIFE STORIES OF REDEMPTION FROM BEHIND BARS
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at Changing Criminals: The Business of Heaven…
DISPLACED PEOPLE: ARTISTS OFFER THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD’S GREATEST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
With the 40 Hour Famine ‘Backpack Challenge’ focusing attention on the plight of the world’s displaced peoples, World Vision Australia in partnership with Jacky Winter Group asked 40 artists to create an original artwork that reflects the tragedy, hope and humanity found amidst conflict and forced displacement. Here are six…
Church in Zanzibar, Tanzania, shaken as court supports Muslims’ opposition to building
Morning Star News A court on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, ruled last week that a church cannot continue constructing a worship building it has tried to finish for eight years, sources said. Hard-line Muslims outside Zanzibar City have been fighting construction of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God building since […]