SNAPSHOT: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
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ON THE SCREEN: ‘OCEAN’S 8’ – THE CON CONTINUES WITH A NEW WAVE OF FEMALE STARS
The Ocean franchise returns – with a female cast. MARCUS CHEONG takes a look…
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Finding Faith hit the mainstream
Finding Faith Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
More than 50 NGOs sign letter calling for Kim Jong-un to address human rights situation in North Korea
More than 50 non-government organisations have signed a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, urging him to address the human rights situation in his country. The letter, which comes ahead of a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and Mr Kim next week and follows an historic meeting between Mr Kim and South […]
KNOW IT ALL: THE KOREAN PENINSULA
With the on-again/off again summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to perhaps take place in just a few days, we thought it a good time to study up on the Korean Peninsula’s tragic history. DAVID ADAMS takes a look…
GERMANY: FENDING OFF THE RISING RIGHT, BAVARIAN LEADER PUTS CROSSES IN STATE OFFICES
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports on the controversy surrounding moves in the German state of Bavaria to install crosses on all government buildings…
Africans fleeing war top list of world’s most neglected, says Norwegian Refugee Council
Thomson Reuters Foundation Six of the world’s 10 most neglected crises are in Africa, where conflict has uprooted millions of people, the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Thursday, attributing the continent’s dominance to a lack of media attention, aid and political will. Democratic Republic of Congo, where years of civil war have led more than […]
ESSAY: SACRILEGIOUS SYMBOLS STRIKE AT THE HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
Bishop SURIEL, the Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Melbourne, on why the use of inverted red crosses in Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival, against the backdrop of ongoing persecution of Christians around the world, is deeply offensive…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – DILIGENT DOING
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at how James spells out the difference between those who merely hear and those who hear and then become ‘doers’…
Pope urges Britons to open their eyes and hear the cries of modern slaves
Thomson Reuters Foundation Pope Francis on Thursday urged Catholics in Britain to “open their eyes” and “hear the cries” of human trafficking victims as the Church tackles modern slavery with advocacy and technology. The Pope said he was praying for the freedom of people trapped in slavery, an estimated 40 million globally, and asked Catholics […]