Billy Graham, mourned as a man of God, is laid to rest near his childhood home
RNS Billy Graham was celebrated as a man of God at a funeral that overlooked his childhood home and closed a chapter of American evangelical history. For many evangelicals around the world, Rev Graham – who died last week at age 99 – was their faith’s embodiment and ideal. Eulogists, including all five of his […]
BILLY GRAHAM: A PREACHER TO MILLIONS TOOK COMFORT IN A LOCAL CHURCH PASTOR
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with Rev Don Wilton, the man Billy Graham chose to preside over his funeral…
ON THE SCREEN: ‘SAMSON’ A SLIGHTLY CLUNKY “SWORDS AND SANDALS” ADVENTURE
DAVID ADAMS watches Samson…
100 Iranian Christians facing deportation from Austria after the US rejects asylum
BosNewsLife Some 100 mostly Christian Iranians stranded in Austria face imminent deportation back to Iran where they could face detention, torture, and even death after the United States rejected their asylum applications, rights activists have said this week. The Christians expected entry to the US under decades-old legislation and a humanitarian program that allows members of persecuted Iranian […]
Australia moves to curb trafficking in overseas orphanages
Thomson Reuters Foundation Australia on Thursday launched a campaign to stop “orphanage tourism”, which advocacy groups say has been used to exploit and traffic children in some of the world’s poorest countries. The United Nations and non-profit groups including Save the Children have warned that kids in countries like Cambodia have been taken from their homes […]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: HOW “LONE WARRIORS” ARE RESCUING SEX SLAVES AND RAPE SURVIVORS
INNA LAZAREVA reports on how “lone warriors” have been working to help survivors of sexual attacks in the Central African Republic – and how the tide may now be shifting towards justice for them in the African nation…
ESSAY: BILLY GRAHAM WAS THE ‘LAST NON-PARTISAN EVANGELICAL’?
US academic JOHN G STACKHOUSE, Jr, in an article first published on Religion News Service, challenges the notion that Billy Graham was the ‘last non-partisan evangelical’…
Peace is a ‘fragile possibility’ as Colombians flee clashes, says Red Cross
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Colombians are being driven from their homes and dozens killed despite a peace accord ending half a century of civil war, the Red Cross said on Thursday, urging the government to better protect civilians. A peace deal between the government and the left-wing rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) […]
BILLY GRAHAM: EVANGELICAL MEDIA PIONEER
TED PARKS, in an article first published by Religion News Service, looks at how Billy Graham changed the religious media landscape…