PAKISTAN: CHURCH LEADERS ARRESTED AND FINED FOR NOT PUTTING SECURITY IN PLACE
ASIF AQEEL reports for the World Watch Monitor from Pakistan…
Volunteers gather names of South Sudan’s uncounted war dead
Thomson Reuters Foundation Achol Mach Chiek, a 66-year-old woman, was last seen in the central town of Bor in December, 2013, at the start of South Sudan’s most recent war. She is among more than 5,000 victims of violence whose names appear in the “Remembering the Ones We Lost” project, a memorial to people who […]
Unprecedented number of children around the globe displaced from their homes this Christmas, says World Vision’s Tim Costello
An unprecedented number of children will spend Christmas displaced from their homes as the globe faces four “enormous, ongoing and mostly ignored” crises, according to Tim Costello, chief advocate at World Vision Australia. Rev Costello said that as Australians prepare for “feasting and festivities”, they should remember the more than 33 million children who have […]
ANGLICAN CHURCH: 2018 LIKELY TO BE ANOTHER TOUGH YEAR FOR THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
CATHERINE PEPINSTER, of Religion News Service, writes about some of the challenges facing the Anglican Church in the coming year…
CELEBRATING THE GIFT OF CHRIST
December 25th, the day that we celebrate the birth of our Saviour, is almost upon us (though for those of the Orthodox Church, it is a little further away in early January). We wish all a peaceful and joyful Christmas as we celebrate the birth of Jesus with family and friends. SHARING THE LIGHT: Dennis […]