Three days after deadly shooting, Nashville church holds first service
USA Today/RNS The carpet has been pulled up from the floor of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ. Five of its congregants, including the minister, remain hospitalised for gunshot wounds. Those who aren’t hospitalised planned to attend a funeral on Thursday for Melanie Crow, who was killed as she walked out of church Sunday. But on […]
Weeks left to save East Africa’s starving children, says World Vision
Thomson Reuters Foundation More than 800,000 children risk death by starvation in East Africa and aid agencies have just weeks – months at most – to save them, World Vision said on Wednesday. Conflict in South Sudan and Somalia, and prolonged drought across the region have left more than 15 million children in need of […]
Religious leaders in Nigeria unite in ‘Appeal of Peace’ after violence in Jos
World Watch Monitor Many young people attended the meeting of Jos together with the Christian and Muslim leaders in Plateau State. PICTURE: Sant’Egidio Nigeria’s Christian and Muslim leaders have called for peace following a recent surge of violence in the central state of Plateau. On 14th September, three people lost their lives after an eruption […]
Pakistani woman calls for Western countries to recognise Christian persecution
World Watch Monitor Kashmala Munawar in an interview with Australian broadcaster SBS in August 2014. PICTURE: SBS A young Pakistani Christian woman who travelled to Australia for surgery, after she was seriously injured in a twin suicide bombing at her church in Peshawar in 2013, says that three years on “countries in the West still fail […]
ANGLICAN CHURCH: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER GETS A GLOSSARY
A glossary to help trainee priests understand the Church of England’s 500-year-old Book of Common Prayer has been created. CATHERINE PEPINSTER, of Religion News Service, reports…