CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: WHERE GOVERNMENT WRIT ONLY RUNS IN THE CAPITAL
In an article first published by World Watch Monitor, ILLIA DJADI writes a first person account of his recent visit to the Central African Republic where he says there is once again a “sense of emergency” amid a deteriorating security situation…
Egyptian police foil latest terrorist attack on Coptic church in Sinai
World Watch Monitor An attack on a Coptic church in north-eastern Egypt, which was also targeted during the wave of anti-Christian violence in August, 2013, has been repelled by state security forces stationed outside the building. The heavy security presence outside the Mar Girgis (St George) church in El-Arish, which had the use of an […]
Egyptian police foil latest terrorist attack on Coptic church in Sinai
World Watch Monitor An attack on a Coptic church in north-eastern Egypt, which was also targeted during the wave of anti-Christian violence in August, 2013, has been repelled by state security forces stationed outside the building. The heavy security presence outside the Mar Girgis (St George) church in El-Arish, which had the use of an […]
Australian Christian Lobby welcomes increase in aid to Rohingya refugees but calls for more diplomatic pressure on Myanmar
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed an Australian Government decision to contribute an additional $10 million towards helping to address the Rohingya refugee crisis unfolding on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh but said it also needed to step up diplomatic pressure to resolve the situation. It’s estimated that more than 600,000 refugees have fled […]
BOOKS: ‘THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’ A BLEAK AND CONFRONTING STORY OF SLAVERY
DAVID ADAMS reads Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel about slavery, The Underground Railroad…
POLITICALLY CORRECT?
In his confronting and challenging book, On Offence, Richard King takes on a number of the social malaise of our time, including political correctness. PICTURE: Unsplash He reports the opinion of Tony Judt who spent his final years in a wheelchair suffering Lou Gehrig’s disease. Tony’s reflection was that political correctness – aimed at making the […]
African leaders join forces in pledge to stamp out child marriage
Thomson Reuters Foundation African political leaders, activists, and local chiefs joined forces on Monday to commit to ending child marriage in West and Central Africa, the region with the highest child marriage rate in the world. More than a third of girls in the region are married under the age of 18, with the rate […]
“We got your back, Jack,” conservative black clergy in the US tell baker who refused gay couple
RNS Rev William Avon Keen, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Virginia, joined conservative black clergy in launching a campaign n support of a Colorado baker who refused to create a cake for a gay wedding. PICTURE: RNS/Adelle M Banks Conservative African-American clergy accused LGBT activists of hijacking the civil rights movement and […]
IMMIGRATION: AS WINTER LOOMS, MIGRANT CHILDREN SLEEP ROUGH IN NORTHERN FRANCE
LIN TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on what life’s like for migrants in northern France, a year on from the closure of the ‘Jungle’ camp…