Wife of missing Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh writes to PM
World Watch Monitor Pastor Raymond Koh, who was last seen in February 2017. PICTURE: Facebook/Everybody Loves RK The wife of abducted Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh and that of social activist Amri Che Mat have jointly written an open letter to the country’s Prime Minister, asking for an immediate and independent investigation into the disappearance […]
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Young & Free’s third album, and Curt Anderson’s new single
Curt Anderson Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
ORIGINS: THE ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the start of Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service. So how did it all come about? DAVID ADAMS takes a look back…
Supreme Court denies breakaway Episcopal group control of its churches
RNS The Episcopal Church in South Carolina is preparing to reclaim control of more than two dozen properties worth an estimated $US500 million after the US Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal brought by a breakaway group of conservative Anglican congregations. “We are grateful for the clarity that this decision offers, and hopeful […]
‘Catastrophic’ risk of death for 300,000 Yemeni children trapped by attack
Thomson Reuters Foundation Some 300,000 children risk death, injury and starvation as they are trapped in Yemen’s main port city which is under assault from Saudi-led Arab states, aid groups said on Wednesday. The biggest battle in a three-year war, which has already created the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, centres on Hodeidah, the main route […]
Myanmar: “400 villages destroyed, 150,000 people displaced” in Kachin
World Watch Monitor More than 400 villages have been damaged or destroyed and 150,000 people displaced since the collapse of a ceasefire in 2011 between Myanmar’s army and rebels in northern Kachin state, reports Catholic website AsiaNews. In 2018 alone, 50 villages were abandoned and more than 7,000 people fled their homes, seeking refuge in local churches, […]
BELIEF: LOSING THEIR RELIGION – YOUNGER ADULTS ARE LESS RELIGIOUS, AND NOT ONLY IN THE US
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on the findings of new research looking at religious feelings among older and younger adults around the world…
US Vice President Mike Pence addresses Southern Baptists after debate over whether he should
RNS US Vice President Mike Pence touted President Trump’s meeting with North Korean President Kim Jong Un in a speech before Southern Baptists and urged their continuing prayers as the administration moves ahead with negotiations to seek peace on the Korean Peninsula. The speech drew cheers from a friendly crowd as Pence tallied accomplishments popular with […]
ESSAY: DIGITAL ADDICTION – HOW TECHNOLOGY KEEPS US HOOKED
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics RAIAN ALI, EMILY ARDEN-CLOSE and JOHN MCALANEY look at some of the techniques and mechanisms digital media use to to keep you “hooked”…
STRANGESIGHTS: FILM APPEAL TO KIM; LEGAL AID FOR LEMONADE; AND, WORLD’S BIGGEST PAPER PLANE?…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…