Herdsmen mount another slaughter of Christians in Benue State, Nigeria
Morning Star News Still shocked over a deadly attack on a Catholic congregation on Tuesday, Christians in Nigeria’s Benue state yesterday suffered another onslaught by Muslim Fulani herdsmen that reportedly left at least 39 people dead. More than 160 houses also were reported to have been set ablaze in heavily armed attacks that began late […]
Australian nun ordered to leave The Philippines
A 71-year-old Australian nun has been ordered to leave The Philippines within 30 days after immigration authorities revoked her visa for joining protest rallies. Sister Patricia Fox, co-founder and superior of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion in the Philippines, was ordered to leave after authorities reportedly said she had engaged in activities not permitted […]
Muslim Fulani herdsmen gun down Christians in Catholic church in Nigeria
Morning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday attacked a Roman Catholic Church service in central Nigeria, killing two priests and 17 other parishioners during an early morning Mass, sources said. In Ayar-Mbalom village in Benue state, the assailants shot dead Rev Joseph Gor and Rev Felix Tyolaha of St Ignatius Quasi Catholic Parish, Ukpor, […]
BELIEF: MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE, BUT NOT ALWAYS IN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on a new survey into the belief of Americans…
“Breakthrough” in mosquito-packed drones to combat Zika in Brazil
Thomson Reuters Foundation Millions of sterile mosquitoes will be released from drones over parts of Brazil to combat the Zika virus, after successful field tests were hailed as a “breakthrough” by the United Nations. Once freed, the sterilised, laboratory-bred male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes – which spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever by biting humans – mate with […]
ESSAY: TO EUROPE’S SHAME, ROMA REMAIN STIGMATISED OUTSIDERS – EVEN WHEN THEY LIVE IN MANSIONS
In an article first published on The Conversation, RYAN POWELL, of the University of Sheffield in the UK, says new research has found just how pervasive anti-Roma sentiment is in Europe…
THINGS THAT MATTER MOST
People get passionate about things that matter most to them. Passionate or pig-headed? PICTURE: Robert Zunikoff/Unsplash That’s great. If it wasn’t like this people wouldn’t find solutions to problems, cures for diseases, technological breakthrough. They wouldn’t write soaring songs or paint poignant portraits. They wouldn’t fight injustice, or feed the poor, or describe the design […]
SIGHT-SEEING: LOVING YOURSELF – BY LOVING OTHERS
NILS VON KALM on the key role loving others plays in learning to love yourself…
Global religious freedom commission cites 28 key nations for ‘ongoing downward trend’
RNS The US Commission on International Religious Freedom cited more than two dozen countries as main contributors to an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and called on the Trump administration to prioritize the release of religious prisoners and assist in resettling refugees fleeing persecution. “Sadly, religious freedom conditions deteriorated in many countries in […]