SNAPSHOT: LOS ANGELES SKYLINE
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GREENSIGHT: THE ATAD – THE JUJUBE OR CHRIST’S THORN
ALVIN JOHNSON looks at what the plant known as the ‘atad’ or thornbush mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Judges actually is…
Aid sector eyes innovation with 3D-printed hands and braille ‘Kindles’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Kindle-like braille readers, 3D-printed prosthetic hands and eye scan payments for refugees are just some of the innovations on offer to improve aid operations around the world. With nations slowly moving to meet an ambitious set of goals to conquer poverty, hunger and other international woes by 2030, aid groups are testing […]
Two more priests become victims of gang violence in Mexico
World Watch Monitor Two priests were killed in separate attacks in their churches in Mexico last week, bringing the number of clergy murdered in the last six years to 23, the Catholic News Agency reported. Fr Juan Miguel Contreras Garcia, 33, was shot on 20th April inside St Pio of Pietrelcina church, in Guadalajara, capital of […]
PHILIPPINES: WITH PINK VESTS AND PROTESTS, CLERGY BLESS LAND RIGHTS STRUGGLE
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Christians are supporting the struggle for land rights in the Philippines…
Pakistan’s top judge says he’ll hear Asia Bibi’s appeal personally – and ‘soon’
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s chief justice says he will decide, “soon,” the fate of Aasiya Noreen, a Christian woman whose 2009 conviction on blasphemy charges has fixated world attention on the country’s treatment of religious minorities. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar told Noreen’s lawyer, Saif-ul-Malook, on 21st April that he would hear the woman’s appeal. Ms […]
OPEN BOOK: II THESSALONIANS – SIGNING OFF…
BRUCE C WEARNE finishes his look at II Thessalonians…
Publishers stop printing Hybels’ books amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour
RNS Several publishers have stopped printing books by former Willow Creek Community Church pastor Bill Hybels as the Chicago-area megachurch he founded investigates new allegations of his inappropriate behaviour toward women. Rev Hybels has denied the allegations. Tyndale House Publishers has suspended publication of Rev Hybels’ Everyone Wins When a Leader Gets Better, set to […]