Museum of the Bible visitors top half a million in first six months
RNS The Good Book is shaping up to be a good draw on the crowded landscape of museums in the nation’s capital. The Museum of the Bible, the newest tourist attraction near the National Mall, has drawn 565,000 visitors since it opened six months ago, according to museum figures released on Thursday. Museum of the Bible […]
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: One Sonic Society’s ‘Great is Thy Faithfulness’
One Sonic Society Listen to this week’s TCM update…
ON THE SCREEN: ‘TULLY’ – AN HONESTLY SURPRISING TRIBUTE TO MOTHERHOOD
MARCUS CHEONG finds Tully an honest tribute to motherhood…
TRENDSPOTTER: THINKING BIG BUT BUILDING SMALL – THE TINY HOUSE MOVEMENT
DAVID ADAMS looks at the move towards smaller – and smaller – homes…
First ‘plastic free’ label to help shoppers curb pollution
Thomson Reuters Foundation A new “plastic-free” logo launched in Britain on Wednesday will allow shoppers to identify products with plastic packaging, as companies come under growing pressure to use green alternatives. Eight million tonnes of plastic – bottles, packaging and other waste – are dumped into the ocean every year, killing marine life and entering the human […]
Four more churches attacked in Nepal
World Watch Monitor A church in Nepal has been bombed and three other churches attacked by arsonists over a five-day period, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Arsonists attacked Hebron Church in Hilihang Rural Municipality, in Nepal’s eastern district of Panchthar, on 9th May; Emmanuel Church, Doti, in the country’s far west, on 10th May; and Emmanuel Church […]
AFRICA: CAR CARDINAL CALLS FOR AN END TO RETALIATORY VIOLENCE AFTER SHOOT-OUT AT MASS
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor, reports on how Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, the Archbishop of Bangui, is leading calls for people in the Central African “to come out of this vicious circle of retaliation, revenge and hatred”…
‘Vicious cycle’ as conflict uproots millions in Africa
Thomson Reuters Foundation Violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa forced 15,000 people from their homes every day in 2017, double the previous year’s figure, an international monitoring centre said on Wednesday, urging more help for those displaced within their own countries. The region accounted for nearly half the 11.8 million people worldwide who were displaced […]
STRANGESIGHTS: HARRY AND MEGHAN TAKE FLIGHT; AN ANGEL CAPTURED ON FILM?; AND, A REESE’S CELEBRATION…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones in Egypt
World Watch Monitor After a three-year wait and a number of broken promises, the Egyptian Coptic families of 20 men beheaded by the so-called Islamic State in Libya in 2015 have finally received their loved ones’ remains. The leader of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, accompanied by several bishops, priests and deacons, welcomed the […]