Nigerian president assures UK archbishop of efforts to secure release of Christian girl
World Watch Monitor Following a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has said his government is working “quietly” to secure the release of a teenage Christian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram. Archbishop Justin Welby, as well as Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Nigerian Archbishop Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, met Mr Buhari at […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘ISLE OF DOGS’ – PLENTY OF BARK AND SATIRICAL BITE
MARCUS CHEONG finds Isle of Dogs a masterfully woven celebration of man’s best friend…
US Christian group asks Netflix to pull ’13 Reasons Why’ after teen suicides
RNS A conservative Christian organisation has asked video streaming giant Netflix to pull 13 Reasons Why, a dramatic series that critics say glamorises suicide, after several teens who reportedly watched the show took their own lives. “This is not a partisan issue, not a conservative issue, but an issue of what we’re putting in front […]
BANGLADESH: RANA PLAZA’S “FORGOTTEN” VICTIMS BATTLE POVERTY AS MONEY DRIES UP
ANURADHA NAGARAJ reports from Savar in Bangladesh on the plight of those who survived the collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka in 2013, killing more than 1,000 textile workers…
A peaceful world requires more women politicians, says former US president
Thomson Reuters Foundation Discrimination against women and girls is a more pressing global challenge than disparities in income between the rich and the poor, former US President Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday. The 93-year-old, who established the Carter Center in 1982 to prevent and resolve conflicts and push for human rights, also backed women to […]
THIS LIFE: AN UNEXPECTED HUMBLING
Having recently attended the SURRENDER conference in Melbourne, NILS VON KALM explains how he came to encounter Christ at a ‘Welcome to Country’…
Chinese clampdown reaches Christians in Henan
World Watch Monitor Local authorities in China’s east-central Henan Province have removed a number of crosses from churches closed a church-run kindergarten and asked Christian residents in one city to register. The “two or three” crosses that have been forcibly removed from churches were located in Yichuan county, and were taken down because they were […]