SNAPSHOT: TAGHAZOUT BEACH, MOROCCO
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From the streets to the World Cup: homeless children play Premier League
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rising youth homelessness will come under the spotlight on Friday as the Street Child World Cup kicks off in Moscow, where 230 children from 20 countries are taking part in a football tournament and congress on their rights. A month before the FIFA World Cup in Russia, the week-long event aims to […]
Four-year sentence for Indonesian pastor who evangelised a taxi driver
World Watch Monitor A Protestant pastor has been sentenced to four years in prison for religious defamation after discussing Christianity with a Muslim taxi driver in Indonesia, the Jakarta Post reports. The Tangerang District Court in Banten also ordered Rev Abraham Ben Moses, 52, pay a fine of 50 million rupiah ($US3,565) or spend one additional month […]
From Yemen to Nigeria, brutal attacks on schools soar, study says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Some 21,000 students and teachers were injured or killed in attacks on schools over the last five years, a study said on Thursday, condemning a rise in violent assaults on education. More than 12,700 attacks, including bombings, arson and violent repression of education-related protests, took place between 2013 and 2017, the New […]
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – APPLICATION
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at the New Testament Epistle of James…
US Protestant churchgoers say gifts to charity, needy count as tithing
RNS Most US Protestant churchgoers believe that giving 10 per cent of their income is a Biblical requirement they should follow but they define the practice of tithing in a variety of ways, a new survey shows. About half say they can give their tithes to a Christian ministry instead of a church. One in […]