Updated: Death toll rises to 10 in Toronto after van mows down pedestrians
Updated: 1pm, 24th April, 2018Ten people have been killed and at least 15 more injured after a van ploughed into pedestrians at high speed in the Canadian city of Toronto on Monday afternoon. A 25-year-old male suspect was later arrested and the van located. The incident took place about 1.30pm on Monday afternoon when the […]
Seize human traffickers’ money to help victims, urge campaigners
Thomson Reuters Foundation Seizing the gains of human traffickers to compensate victims should be treated a priority by governments to crack down on the estimated $US150 billion a year crime, an international anti-trafficking conference was told on Monday. Campaigners told the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe conference that governments did not focus enough […]
Nigerian church calls for three days of prayer and fasting for kidnapped girl
Nigeria’s Evangelical Church Winning All has called for three days of prayer and fasting for the release of a Christian schoolgirl held by Boko Haram who reportedly refused to renounce her faith in exchange for freedom. Leah Sharibu, 15, was among 110 schoolgirls abducted by a faction of the terror group on 19th Feburary from […]
Rush to house record number of Venezuelan refugees as rainy season looms in Brazil’s north
Thomson Reuters Foundation Brazilian authorities and aid groups are rushing to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan refugees before the start of the rainy season in northern Roraima state this month, even as government leaders clash over a request to close the border. On Friday, a UN-backed centre opened in Boa Vista, the capital of […]
FOOD: IN THE US, BLACK NETWORK’S FARM-TO-CHURCH MOVEMENT BRINGS FRESH FOOD TO BALTIMORE
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on how the Black Church Food Security Network is helping provide food security in the US…
Concerns over reported rise in extremism in Burkina Faso
World Watch Monitor A church in Burkina Faso, where more than 20 per cent of the population is Christian. PICTURE: khym54 via Flickr; CC 2.0 Christian and Muslim leaders in Burkina Faso met recently to discuss interreligious dialogue amidst growing concerns about the spread of violent Islamic extremism in the country, reports Fides. The landlocked West African […]
SIGHT-SEEING: CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE BIBLE
In an article written to mark World Book Day on 23rd April, GRAHAM MCDONALD looks at how the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, has contributed to the betterment of our society and how reading it can change your life for the better…
As fruit trees fall, a hunger threat looms in Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation When Leah Mutembei was growing up in Kajuki, a village in central Kenya, most farms were dotted with avocado and mango trees. “But now they have all gone,” the 32-year-old maize farmer said from her homestead, gesturing to the barren land nearby. “We had to cut them to make firewood and charcoal,” […]