SIGHT-SEEING: FINDING OURSELVES IN A LONELY WORLD
NILS VON KALM reflects on the importance of community in the Christian walk…
Syria: Damascus churches damaged as Christian neighbourhoods hit
World Watch Monitor Two churches have been damaged in a fresh escalation of fighting in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Dozens of shells were fired from the rebel-held enclave of Goutha East last Tuesday, in the space of just a few hours, “at random” and without a specific goal, witnesses told AsiaNews. The attacks were concentrated on majority-Christian areas […]
Britain’s plastic waste measures don’t go far enough, say campaigners
Thomson Reuters Foundation New measures by Britain to turn the tide on plastic waste do not go far enough, environmentalists said on Friday. Unveiling a new environmental agenda, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday Britain would eradicate avoidable plastic waste in the next quarter century. The moves – including extending a five pence […]
SNAPSHOT: NAMIB-NAUKLUFT NATIONAL PARK, NAMIBIA
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US and UN strike $US55 million deal for Iraq’s religious minorities
World Watch Monitor Ethnic and religious minorities in northern Iraq are set to receive assistance worth $US55 million from the UN’s international development agency UNDP, funded by the US government. USAID, the development agency of the US government, said the money would be used to help minorities living in parts of Iraq that have been […]