After Harvey criticism, US televangelist Joel Osteen opens church to Jews for High Holy Days
RNS Pastor Joel Osteen gives an interview at his Lakewood Church in Houston on 29th August. Osteen and his congregation have set up their church as a shelter for evacuees from the flooding by Tropical Storm Harvey. PICTURE: AP Photo/LM Otero L’Shanah Tovah, y’all. Joel and Victoria Osteen, leaders of Houston’s Lakewood Church, are offering […]
STRANGESIGHTS: CAN A CAT BE A SOLID AND A LIQUID?; WAR WITH VEYSHNORIA; AND, WASHED UP IN THE STORM…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Filipino priest Teresito Suganob free after four months as hostage
World Watch Monitor Catholic Filipino priest Teresito “Chito” Suganob is finally free, having been held hostage by Islamic State-linked militants for almost four months in the war-torn city of Marawi. According to The New York Times, the priest was rescued late on Saturday by the Philippines military, as it moved closer to rooting out the remaining gunmen from one […]
LIFE’S TOUGH QUESTIONS: IS IT ETHICAL TO TAKE A HOLIDAY IN A “DEVELOPING” COUNTRY?
PAUL HANNA, a lecturer in sustainable tourism at the University of Surrey in the UK, looks, in this article first published on The Conversation, at the ethics of having a luxury holiday in a developing country…
MODERN SLAVERY: MORE THAN 40 MILLION TRAPPED, SAYS NEW GLOBAL ESTIMATE
ELLEN WULFHORST, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a landmark collaboration…