PERSECUTION: ANNUAL RANKING FINDS WORSENING SITUATION FOR MANY CHRISTIANS BUT HOPE REMAINS
Open Doors’ annual World Watch List – ranking the 50 countries where it’s hardest to be a Christian – has been released this week. DAVID ADAMS reports on the findings…
Rohingya children stranded in Myanmar without their parents, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation About 100 Rohingya children are stranded in Myanmar without their parents after military operations drove 655,000 people into Bangladesh since August, the United Nations said. Another 60,000 Rohingya children are languishing “almost forgotten” in disease-ridden camps inside Myanmar since being driven from their homes during violence in 2012, UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado […]
Rich Stearns to retire from charity behemoth World Vision US
RNS Rich Stearns, president of World Vision, US, sits with children in the Kurdish region of Iraq who have been displaced by the conflict in their country. PICTURE: Kari Constanza/World Vision Rich Stearns will retire as president of World Vision US, the Christian humanitarian agency known for its focus on children, after two decades building it […]
STRANGESIGHTS: ODD EPIPHANY CELEBRATIONS; THAILAND’S CARDBOARD CUT-OUT PM; AND, A SNOWFORT FOR RENT
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
ESSAY: BABY JESUS WAS A ‘DREAMER’ IN EGYPT
US columnist THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says Christians in the US should be leading the charge in support of the immigrants known as ‘Dreamers’…
Poverty for Syrian refugees in Lebanon could push children to marry and work
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly seven years into Syria’s civil war, Syrian refugees in neighbouring Lebanon are becoming poorer, leaving children at risk of child labour and early marriage, aid organisations said on Tuesday. A recent survey by the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, UN’s World Food Programme, and refugee agency, UNHCR, showed that Syrian refugees in Lebanon […]