APPS: A GUIDE TO THE REFORMATION – IN SWITZERLAND
As the world marks 500 years since the start of the Reformation in Germany, DAVID ADAMS finds an app that explores how those events affected neighbouring Switzerland…
US: IN THE CAPITOL’S SHADOW, MASSIVE MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE READIES FOR OPENING
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports from Washington, DC…
Fulani Christians call for peace as violence continues in Nigeria’s Plateau state
World Watch Monitor Rev Buba Aliyu (right), to Chief Ronku Aka (left): “We have come to condole with the entire Irigwe chiefdom, the Plateau people and Nigeria as a country.” PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Fulani Christians in Nigeria have spoken out against the persistent attacks and killings attributed to Fulani herdsmen in the central state […]
STRANGESIGHTS: SYDNEY’S FERRY MCFERRYFACE (YAWN?); GET DANCING IN NYC; AND, RECORD NUMBER OF NESSIE SIGHTINGS…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
Bible Society Australia gives away more than 200,000 copies of the story of Jesus’ birth in lead-up to Christmas
Bible Society Australia has given away more than 200,000 copies of a book telling the story of Christ’s birth since it was launched in late October. The society offered the 28 page colourfully illustrated book, The Really Good News of Christmas, free to individuals and churches as part of its bicentennial celebrations. It had expected to give […]
ESSAY: A SUGGESTION FOR YOUNGER EVANGELICALS – LOSE THE LABEL
TOM KRATTENMAKER, in an article first published by Religion News Service, explains why he’s convinced that in the US, the term evangelical “no longer means what it once did”…
Updated: Australian Christian leaders respond to same-sex marriage vote result
Last updated: 11:30am, 16th NovemberAustralia’s Parliament must work to unify the nation by respecting different views on marriage, the president of the Australian Catholic Bishop’s Conference said after the announcement that 61.6 per cent of Australians had voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage. Archbishop Denis Hart said in a statement that the Catholic Church […]