Nigerian bishops call for President Buhari to resign over church massacre
World Watch Monitor The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has urged the country’s President to step down in the wake of a massacre at a church last week. Muhammadu Buhari was due to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday where they were expected to discuss strategies for fighting terrorism. Thousands of […]
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EGYPT: “GIVING FREEDOM TO WOMEN IS SOMETHING REMARKABLE” – PROTESTANT HEAD
World Watch Monitor reports on how, while the issue of equality for women is gaining traction in Egypt including in some sections of the church, there’s still a “long way to go”…
Five years on, hope remains for missing Syrian bishops
World Watch Monitor Five years since the disappearance of two Syrian bishops, the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut says “all available evidence and indications encourage continued optimism” that they may yet be alive and one day released. However, its statement added that “all the efforts that have been made to obtain even a single thread in this […]
ESSAY: WHY DOES IT MATTER THAT 1.7 BILLION ADULTS REMAIN “UNBANKED”?
ROBERT DUNN, global executive director of microfinance and development organisation Opportunity International, says having a bank account for financial transactions benefits both the individual and society as a whole…
Church bodies welcomes historic Korean declaration
The National Council of Churches in Korea has expressed its “strong support” for the declaration signed by the leaders of North and South Korea at last Friday’s historic summit in which they agreed to work for complete denuclearisation of the peninsula and for “permanent” peace. In a statement issued late last week, the NCCK said […]