Norway to ban child marriage as it seeks to set a global example
Thomson Reuters Foundation Norway approved a law banning all child marriage on Tuesday, with campaigners saying it would set an example to others ahead of a global 2030 deadline for eradicating the practice. The Nordic country has a minimum age of 18, but allows 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent and permission from […]
BOOKS: BILLY GRAHAM’S ‘WHERE I AM’ A WALK THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH ETERNITY IN MIND
DAVID ADAMS reads Billy Graham’s last book, Where I Am…
Beijing house churches investigated and ordered to close
World Watch Monitor Authorities in China’s capital Beijing investigated two house churches earlier this month and also pressured landlords to cancel the leases of their meeting places, China Aid reported. Officials from the Xicheng District Public Security Bureau attended a church meeting on Sunday, 6th May. Without interrupting the service they investigated proceedings and took photos in […]
Christians urged to join letter writing campaign calling for greater action on TB
Christians are being encouraged to join a letter-writing campaign urging greater action to tackle tuberculosis. The campaign, which is being run by the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, is calling on faith leaders, churches, representatives of faith-based organisations and people of faith to ask to their governments to urgently take action to end […]
THE INTERVIEW: MIROSLAV VOLF AND THE THEOLOGY OF JOY
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to US-based theologian Miroslav Volf about joy, how it’s different from happiness and what the Bible says about it…
Adelaide Catholic archbishop found guilty of concealing child sexual abuse
The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, has been found guilty of concealing child sexual abuse allegations made against another priest in a landmark case in New South Wales. Archbishop Wilson is the most senior Catholic to be convicted of such an offence. He was accused of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse […]
REVOLUTION OR RENEWAL?
If you study the rise and fall of civilizations, those which are not overcome by invaders, tend to follow a certain pattern. Revolution or renewal? Better the latter, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Jerry Kiesewetter/Unsplash After years of stability, the inequality of rich and poor gets worse and worse. There is a dissolution of morality and […]
POSTCARDS: CAN THE SCOUTS HELP SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH IN SYRIA?
World Watch Monitor reports from Syria on the role the Scouts are playing in helping to keep churches running…
Episcopalians reflect on staying power of “the sermon that stole the show”
RNS It’s not Meghan Markle’s stunning almost five metre long veil or bouquet of forget-me-nots, the favorite flower of the groom’s late mother, Princess Diana. It’s not the romantic words Prince Harry whispered to his bride as she joined him at the altar. Days after the royal wedding, it’s the address by the Most Rev […]