SNAPSHOT: OCEAN ENTRY IN HAWAII
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Plant trees in refugee camps to stop forest loss and conflict, UN says
Thomson Reuters Foundation With a record 69 million people driven from their homes by war and persecution, the United Nations this week urged countries hosting large numbers of refugees to plant more trees as deforestation risks denuding landscapes and triggering conflict. Four out of five people who flee their homes rely on firewood for cooking […]
Egypt to pay for Coptic bomb attack victim’s surgery in Germany
World Watch Monitor It’s been 18 months since Coptic Christian Samiha Tawfiq was badly injured in the bomb attack on Cairo’s St Peter and Paul Church, which claimed 27 lives and injured 49. It also took away one side of Samiha’s face. Samiha and her husband Koleny were sitting in the respective women’s and men’s sections of the […]
AFRICA: DRIVEN AWAY BY CONFLICT, THOUSANDS OF ETHIOPIANS STRANDED WITHOUT A HOME
TOM GARDNER reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the plight of thousands of Ethiopians forced from their homes…
Pope Francis makes historic visit to World Council of Churches headquarters in Geneva
Pope Francis has made an historic visit to the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, this week, as part of events marking the organisation’s 70th anniversary. The Pope joined Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, at a meeting of the global church body’s Central Committe on Thursday as well as […]
ESSAY: USING CHURCH DISCIPLINE ON ERRANT POLITICIANS SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
US commentator on politics and religion, JACOB LUPFER, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says a decision by members of the United Methodist Church in the US to sanction member, Attoney General Jeff Sessions, risks “weaponising church discipline for all manner of political fights”…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – WORKING FAITH
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at the Epistle of James with a look at why Christians’ actions must reflect their faith…
In the US, Catholic leaders use Religious Freedom Week to highlight social services
RNS With the words “religious freedom” becoming ammunition in the ongoing culture wars, Catholic leaders hope a weeklong campaign titled “Serving Others in God’s Love” will shift the focus more toward essential human rights and dignity. Religious Freedom Week is being led by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and begins on Friday (22nd June), […]