REDUCING WASTE: FOOD-MAD ITALY ON A MISSION TO CUT WASTE, FEED HUNGRY
THIN LEI WIN, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how new initiatives in Italy are addressing food waste but also helping feed those who need it…
Otto Warmbier’s father joins Pence at Olympics to highlight North Korean abuses
World Watch Monitor As the Winter Olympics kick off in Pyeongchang, US Vice-President Mike Pence has arrived in South Korea with a guest – the father of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after being sent home from a North Korea prison in June last year. But, as the BBC reports, Mr Pence did not […]
SNAPSHOT: HENNINGSVAER, NORWAY
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Prison Fellowship hails overturning of ban on children visiting parents in Zimbabwe’s prisons
Prison Fellowship Zimbabwe has hailed as a “breakthrough” the overturning of a decision banning children from visiting parents who are in jail in the southern African nation. The organisation successfully lobbied to overturn the ban which applied to children under the age of 18. Government officials have now agreed to hold an annual visitation week […]
ESSAY: WHAT THE JOYOUS SOLITUDE OF EARLY HERMITS CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING ALONE
In an article first published on The Conversation, KIM HAINES-EITZEN, professor of earth Christianity at Cornell University in the US, looks at what, in taoday’s fast-paced world, we can learn from early Christian hermits…
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: US EVANGELICALS JOIN INTERFAITH LEADERS IN WASHINGTON TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on how some US evangelicals are engaging with people of other faiths over the issue of religious freedom…
Rome’s Colosseum to be floodlit red to remember Asia Bibi and Boko Haram victim
World Watch Monitor The Colosseum in Rome will be floodlit in red later this month to highlight the persecution of Christians around the world, particularly in Iraq and Syria. The iconic landmark, in which some of the earliest Christians are believed to have been martyred under the Romans, will be floodlit red on 24th February, […]