ON THE SCREEN: THE DINOSAURS ARE BACK FOR MORE OF THE SAME
DAVID ADAMS watches Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom…
Mother Teresa charity home “sold babies” in India – claims
Thomson Reuters Foundation Indian authorities said on Thursday they have sealed a home run by Mother Teresa’s religious order and charged a nun and one other person with baby trafficking. The home in eastern India’s Jharkhand state is run by Missionaries of Charity, the order set up by Mother Teresa in India, and provides shelter […]
World Council of Churches launches new logo design for ‘Thursdays in Black’ campaign to end violence against women
The World Council of Churches has unveiled a new design for its ‘Thursdays in Black’ campaign aimed at ending violence against women. The WCC says the new purple, black and white design will give “new momentum” to the campaign, which traces its origins back to the 1980s and was inspired by groups such as the […]
PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIANS EXPRESS DISMAY AT LACK OF REPRESENTATION
With elections scheduled for later this month, ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, looks the representation of Christians and other minority groups in Parliament in Pakistan…
New Lambeth Palace Library key to preserving Anglican history
LondonRNS The Mac Durnan Gospels, late ninth century, showing the opening of St Matthew’s Gospel. PICTURE: Courtesy of Lambeth Palace Library. Work has begun on a new library to house the biggest collection of religious works in the world, outside the Vatican. The library tower, due to open in two years, is the first edifice […]
ESSAY: AS EPISCOPALIANS MEET IN THE US, DEBATE LOOMS ABOUT THEIR PLACE IN THE ANGLICAN WORLD
US religion commentator JACOB LUPFER, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at issues facing the Episcopal Church in the US as its annual convention gets underway…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – BUMBLING ALONG, MOUTHING FIRE OR WALKING GENTLY, WORKING WISDOM
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at James, chapter three, with an examination of a passage looking at the dangers of an unbridled tongue…
Tens of thousands of Kenyans go hungry after floods – aid agencies
Thomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya’s worst floods in recent years are living on the brink with barely enough food to eat two months after the disaster, aid workers warned this week, calling on authorities to provide increased funding and support. Incessant heavy rainfall in March and April caused dams and […]