OPEN BOOK: I THESSALONIANS – DEEPEN THE LOVE GOD HAS GIVEN YOU
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his series on I Thessalonians with a look at Paul’s call for them to deepen the love God has instilled within the church in Thessalonica…
Alarm for Chibok girls as Nigeria targets Boko Haram hideout
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nigeria must avoid harming the Chibok girls in its reported bombardment of a forest hideout used by the Boko Haram militants who seized them, parents and activists said on Thursday. More than 200 schoolgirls were abducted from Chibok in 2014, and 106 have been found or freed. One more girl was found […]
In the US, faith leaders mark 50th anniversary of Memphis sanitation workers’ deaths
RNS The names Echol Cole and Robert Walker are far less familiar than the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was the labor action over harsh working conditions triggered by the deaths of the two African-American sanitation workers that prompted the civil rights leader to travel to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on […]
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Hillsong’s first Grammy win…
Songwriters Brooke Ligertwood and Ben Fielding accepting the Grammy in New York earlier this week. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
HEALTH INSIGHT: DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE GOALS FOR A NEW YEAR
BRIDIE KERSTEN reflects on how to set manageable goals for your health…
Hurricane-hit Dominica hurries to prepare for next storm season
Thomson Reuters Foundation Damaged homes from Hurricane Maria are shown in this aerial photograph taken over the island of Dominica on 19th September, 2017. PICTURE: Courtesy Nigel R Browne/Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency/Regional Security System. The Caribbean island of Dominica, still reeling from Hurricane Maria last September, is on the “frontline of the war on […]
Little chance for illiterate youth in warzones, UN says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Illiteracy among young people is almost three times as high in countries hit by war or disaster, with women and girls worst affected, the United Nations said on Wednesday. France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Senegalese President Macky Sall will open a conference on Thursday in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, to raise money for […]
THE LORD’S PRAYER: WHAT WOULD JESUS SAY? EUROPEAN CATHOLICS GRAPPLE WITH LORD’S PRAYER TRANSLATIONS
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports from Paris…
Is God on Facebook? US network CBS hopes so, in possible new show
RNS CBS has ordered a pilot episode for ‘God Friended Me’. ILLUSTRATION: Kit Doyle. “The Creation of Adam” image courtesy of Creative Commons A smarty-pants atheist friends “God” on Facebook – and God friends him back. That could be the elevator pitch for God Friended Me, a potential new hourlong television drama-comedy from CBS. CBS […]