‘No better time’ for growth of Christianity in Saudi Arabia
World Watch Monitor At present, Christian services are held in secret places in Saudi Arabia. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor. Emad Al Abdy, one of the leaders of the Saudi Christian Association, believes “there is no better time than now” for growth of Christianity in Saudi Arabia, despite the pressure on Christians, Mission Network News reports. Al […]
SNAPSHOT: ISLA GRANDE, PANAMA
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MUSIC: ‘SEASONS’ A HEARTFELT MUSICAL JOURNEY INSPIRED BY LOVE AND LOSS
MARCUS CHEONG listens to Bel Thomson’s Seasons…
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Mainstream artists record faith-based songs; Hillsong’s ‘There is More’ debuts at #1 in Australia
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In US state of Missouri, clergy reject bill on concealed guns in churches
RNS A group of religious leaders is condemning a Missouri bill to permit people to carry concealed firearms in church without permission from clergy, with St Louis’ Catholic archbishop threatening to sue if the bill is signed into law. The bill would “broaden Second Amendment rights at the expense of the First Amendment right of […]
TECHNOLOGY: AS FACEBOOK REELS, SILICON VALLEY DABBLES IN ETHICS
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how the tech industry is grappling with the issue of ethics…
‘Silent, invisible’ malnutrition seen as threat to generations in Congo
Thomson Reuters Foundation Starving children are the glaring face of Congo’s humanitarian crisis, but millions more people are suffering slow onset malnutrition which could have harmful effects for generations, the United Nations said on Thursday. About 13 million of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 80 million people are in need of humanitarian aid – 50 per cent […]
OPEN BOOK: II THESSALONIANS – CONFIDENCE IN THE LORD
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what Paul says about having confidence in the Lord’s faithfulness in II Thessalonians, chapter 3…
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of American millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
RNS Most American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz was, a survey finds. Despite the slaughter of nearly a million Jews – as well as hundreds of thousands of Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others – at the World War II Nazi death camp, a survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found […]