EUROPE: GERMANS DEBATE HOW TO COMBAT ‘IMPORTED ANTI-SEMITISM’
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports from Germany on moves to address growing concerns around anti-Semitism…
THIS LIFE : NEW YEAR, NEW ME. REALLY?
AMANDA JACKSON argues that if we’re looking for change this year, it’s to God – and not self-help – that we need to turn…
Cholera threatens Congo’s capital as hundreds die from lack of treatment
Thomson Reuters Foundation Democratic Republic of Congo is racing to contain a cholera outbreak that has swept through villages ravaged by conflict and is now spreading quickly in the overcrowded capital, officials and health workers said on Tuesday. Cholera outbreaks occur regularly in the vast Central African country but this is the worst in more […]
Six Nigerian nuns released two months after kidnap
World Watch Monitor Six Catholic nuns from a convent in the southern Nigerian state of Edo were released on Sunday, two months after they were kidnapped by armed men. The nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Christ, were released after police intervention and were said to be unhurt, the Nigerian Vanguard […]
TEXTING
It amazes me how differently people can come across in text messages! PICTURE: Daria Nepriakhina/Unsplash When it comes to texting, some people are all serious and formal, even though you know them to be relaxed and spontaneous. Other people can come across all ‘giddy-as-a-schoolgirl’, using all those emoticons and abbreviations, when in real life they are […]
At least 29 dead after cyclone sweeps over Madagascar’s east
At least 29 people have been killed and almost 15,000 displaced from their homes after tropical cyclone Ava made landfall in Madagascar late last week. The cyclone made landfall on the eastern part of the African island Friday morning, bringing with it heavy rain and strong winds, before moving out of the nation that night. […]
Number of migrants making Mediterranean crossing drops by half in 2017, new data shows
The number of migrants who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe last year was less than half that of the previous year but the number of deaths remains at more than 3,100 people, according to data from the International Organization for Migration. The figures, released late last week, show that an estimated 3,116 people had […]
MIDDLE EAST: IS TRUMP WIDENING THE RIFT BETWEEN EVANGELICALS AND MIDEAST CHRISTIANS?
JACK JENKINS reports for Religion News Service…