Australians have until midnight to ensure they can take part in national same-sex marriage postal survey
Australians have until midnight tonight to ensure they’re listed on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll and can take part in the same-sex marriage postal survey. The ABS, which will conduct the survey, said that an Australian Marriage Law Survey Form will be sent by post to every eligible Australian over a two week period starting on 12th […]
STRANGESIGHTS: ‘NEVER FORGOTTEN’…JUST LEFT BEHIND; LIZARDMEN, SUNSQUATCH AMONG ECLIPSE ODDITIES; AND, SHAKESPEARE LOSES HIS ‘E’…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Eighty-three children used as “human bombs” in north-east Nigeria already this year says UNICEF
At least 83 children, mostly girls, have been used as “human bombs” since January this year in conflict-torn north-east Nigeria – a fourfold increase on the whole of last year’s total, according to new data from UNICEF. The UN child focused agency said that since 1st January, 55 girls – most under 15-years-old, 27 boys […]
Christian leaders in Sierra Leone call for continued prayer after some 500 die in mudslide
Christian leaders in Sierra Leone have called for people to continue praying for those affected by a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the nation’s capital of Freetown. “Please continue to pray with us”, Bishop Arnold Temple, from the Methodist Church Sierra Leone, said in comments reported by the World Council of Churches. […]
LIFESTORY: UN AWARD WINNER REBECCA DALI “IDENTIFIES” WITH CHIBOK PARENTS
The recipient of this year’s UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award, Dr Rebecca Dali recalls how her own loss helped her to comfort the traumatised parents of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school in Nigeria in 2014 and her own encounters with members of the terror group…