WOW! WRITING PROJECT HELPS YOUNG SYRIAN REFUGEES CONNECT WITH NEW YORK KIDS
HEBA KANSO reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation…
More newborns dying in West and Central Africa as world “fails poorest babies”
Thomson Reuters Foundation More babies are dying each year in West and Central Africa even as child health improves overall, aid agencies said on Tuesday, calling the region’s newborn death rate a “hidden tragedy”. Five of the 10 most dangerous countries to be born are in West and Central Africa, with infants there 50 times […]
Eight hundred Christian families flee Lahore neighbourhood after blasphemy accusation
World Watch Monitor At least 800 Christian families fled a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan, after a 20-year-old Christian man was accused of posting blasphemous content on Facebook, causing an angry mob to form. In a bid to calm the situation, several Islamic clerics and a few Christian leaders held a press conference at the Shahdara Police […]
Church spires in England may be used to boost technology access
Church spires in England may be used to boost mobile phone, broadband and wifi access under an agreement between the Church of England and the UK Government. The accord, signed between the church and two government departments – Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, recognises that 65 per cent of […]
BOOKS: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF AN AUSTRALIAN ICON
DAVID ADAMS reads Sarah Goldman’s biography of Caroline Chisholm…
Christians urged to “just pray no” to drugs over April weekend
Christians around the world are being asked to join in a global weekend of prayer and fasting for those addicted to alcoholism, drugs and other life controlling problems. To be held over the weekend of 7th and 8th April, the annual “Just Pray NO!” event has been held every year since 1991 with people from […]
Michael Pailthorpe appointed new national director of Sports Chaplaincy Australia
Christian-based chaplaincy network Sports Chaplaincy Australia has announced the appointment of Michael Pailthorpe as its new national director. Mr Pailthorpe, a former CEO of Habitat for Humanity Australia and Variety WA as well as a former NSW state manager for World Vision Australia, takes up his role on 12th March. The move comes after long-serving […]
ELECTRICITY
I love it. When humanity first discovered – and was able to harness – electricity, they thought they had found ‘it’, the secret to life! The thing that animates people and animals. The Divine Spark! PICTURE: Jonas Kaiser/Unsplash Why, they could send a spark down a dead frog’s leg and get it to jump! An unconscious […]