Authorities in Zanzibar, Tanzania, close down church
Morning Star News The pastor of a church on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar Island was preaching earlier this month when a plainclothes police officer and local officials strode into the church service. “One of the police officers in civilian clothes walked through the church’s door, stepped up to the podium and then grabbed the bishop by […]
THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: IN THE US, MORE SEMINARY STUDENTS LEAVE MASTER OF DIVINITY BEHIND
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on why more people looking to be ministers are favouring a Master of Arts over a Master of Divinity at US seminaries…
ON THE SCREEN: ENTERTAINING ‘STAR WARS’ SPIN-OFF ‘SOLO’ ANSWERS SOME LONG-HELD QUESTIONS
DAVID ADAMS watches Solo: A Star Wars Story…
Order for deportation of Australian missionary nun upheld in Philippines
An Australian missionary nun has been ordered to leave The Philippines after immigration authorities upheld a decision for her deportation. In April, Sister Patricia Fox, 71, was ordered to leave The Philippines by 25th May after the Bureau of Immigration ruled she had violated the conditions of her missionary visa. Her lawyers appealed the decision […]
ESSAY: THE FORGOTTEN MALE VICTIMS OF HONOUR-BASED VIOLENCE
Academic MAZ IDRISS, in an article first published on The Conversation, calls for greater support in the UK for victims of honour-based violence, both women and men…
“No one wanted to make this film”: India’s Pinto stars in sex slave’s tale
Thomson Reuters Foundation A new film starring Slumdog Millionaire‘s Freida Pinto and Demi Moore, about the real-life story of a young Indian girl who gets trapped in the global sex trade, struggled to get funding because it was too controversial. The gritty movie Love Sonia, which also features award-winning Anupam Kher, will premiere in June […]
ALGERIA: PROTESTANT CHURCHES CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO TREAT THEM FAIRLY
World Watch Monitor reports on calls from Protestant churches to give them equal treatment…
Chaldean Patriarch congratulates surprise Iraqi election winner
World Watch Monitor The Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Raphael I Sako, has telephoned Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr to congratulate him on his unexpected victory in the country’s recent parliamentary elections. The Patriarchate also said that Sako told Sadr he hoped for a government that promotes the common good of all the Iraqi people. According to […]
STRANGESIGHTS: HARALD’S FOOT IN MOUTH; WHITE HOUSE ON ‘YANNY’ OR ‘LAUREL’; AND BUY A PENTHOUSE (AND A SPACE FLIGHT)…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE INHERENT VALUE OF WORK
NILS VON KALM looks at why our work matters…