UGANDA: FIGHTING CHILD SACRIFICE IN DROUGHT-STRICKEN NATION
DOREEN AJIAMBO, of Religion News Service, reports on how witch-doctors are sacrificing children in Uganda – and the role the church, working with police, is playing in countering such horrific practices…
Amnesty calls on EU nations to fulfil asylum seeker relocation quotas
European nations have largely failed to fulfil their commitments to relocate asylum seekers from Greece and Italy with only a third of their promises fulfilled, according to Amnesty International. Under a two year scheme agreed in September, 2015, 160,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Greece and Italy were to be given the opportunity to resettle […]
‘Cursed’, blind female Ethiopian rights lawyer shares ‘alternative Nobel Prize’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Blind Ethiopian lawyer Yetnebersh Nigussie (left) and Rupert Roniger, CEO of Light for the World, in 2013. PICTURE: Light for the World. At just five-years-old, Yetnebersh Nigussie’s world went dark. After contracting a fever as a child, no amount of “holy water” or traditional medicine in rural Ethiopia was enough to stop […]
Human rights situation “significantly deteriorated” in Crimea since occupation, says UN report
The human rights situation in Crimea has “significantly deteriorated” since its occupation by the Russian Federation in early 2014 and “grave” violations affecting the right to life, liberty and security have not been effectively investigated, according to a new UN report. The report, the work of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human […]
PHILLIP
I talked previously about how the marriage debate might affect a 15 year-old-boy, struggling with his sexuality. PICTURE: Posed by a model/Pexels. I have other people in my community. Like Phillip the 75-year-old war hero. He’s a gentle man who’s survived two wives. He’s still active in the community, giving his time to help others. […]
THIS LIFE: ARE YOU PRAYING FOR THE LOST?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, on praying for the lost, even for those who have wronged us…