On Reformation anniversary, US Lutherans bridge divides with other faiths
RNS 500th anniversary of Reformation at Washington, DC’s Lutheran Church of the Reformation. PICTURE: RNS/Adelle M Banks Five centuries to the day when German monk Martin Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to a church door in Germany, leaders of the largest Lutheran denomination in the US gathered to celebrate how they’ve bridged […]
POSTCARDS: PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS FACE DISCRIMINATION IN PRISONS TOO
ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, reports on hardships facing Christians in prison in Pakistan…
MR ETERNITY: THE STORY OF ARTHUR STACE
Due to the fact the book we’d selected wasn’t yet available in paperback in Australia (we’ll read that next year) – we’ve made a change so for November-December, 2017. We’re now reading Roy Williams and Elizabeth Meyers’ book, Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace. To buy the book, follow this link (ebook) – Mr Eternity: The […]
BOOKS: HOW THE LORD’S PRAYER CAN RESHAPE YOUR LIFE
CAROLE ADAMS reads Darren Cronshaw’s Dangerous Prayer…
British aid group building homes for homeless Christians in Bangladesh
BosNewsLife A British Christian aid organisation wants to build homes for the first group of thousands of homeless Christian Santal people in northern Bangladesh, a year after security forces destroyed their houses killing several villagers. “Next Monday will be the first anniversary of a night of terrible violence against Christians in Bangladesh when over 5,500 lost their homes […]
Another Coptic church closed in Egypt after flyer causes riot
World Watch Monitor Police in Egypt’s Minya governorate closed another church and arrested 15 people in the village of Ezbet Zakariya last Friday after a mob attacked Copts with stones and destroyed some of their property. The violence appears to have been fuelled by a flyer that was distributed on Friday, saying “we opened the […]
SIGHT-SEEING: CHURCH UNITY MATTERS – A HOUSE DIVIDED WILL NOT STAND
Brisbane pastor MATT PRATER, in a written version of a talk given as part of a QCommons event, calls for the church to be an example of what it means to be unified…
Hungary honours Scottish missionary who died at Auschwitz
BosNewsLife Jane Haining Hungary is hosting an exhibition honoring a Church of Scotland missionary killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau for protecting Jewish children in Budapest. Jane Haining was the only Scottish woman known to have died in the Nazi-run extermination camp in occupied Poland. The exhibition ‘Common Fate’ is being held for the first time at Budapest’s […]
ESSAY: WHY THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IS AN HISTORICAL EVENT ON PAR WITH THE REFORMATION
American Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, on why the rise of ecumenism is a cause for celebration and what the next steps are…