SNAPSHOT: MOUNT BROMO, INDONESIA
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Countries accused of failing to meet pledge to tackle antibiotic misuse
Thomson Reuters Foundation Only half of 200 or so countries have abided by a pledge to tackle the use of antibiotics with concerted nationwide efforts, threatening lives and crops, particularly in poor countries, expert groups said this week. Nearly 200 countries agreed in 2015 to address the issue of resistance to antimicrobials such as antibiotics, […]
How white evangelicals are outliers among US faith groups
RNS A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic shows that when it comes to politics, white evangelical Christians stand apart from every other religious group. The poll found that 61 per cent of evangelicals say the United States is headed in the right direction. By comparison, 64 per cent of the […]
New cathedral in Bahrain to be Catholic headquarters for northern Persian Gulf
World Watch Monitor A new cathedral being built in Bahrain will serve as the ‘seat of government’ of the Catholic Church for the northern Persian Gulf, reports AsiaNews. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, patron saint of the Arabian Peninsula, to hold 2,000 people, is some 20 kilometres outside the capital Manama, on land given […]
NIGERIA: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY RAISES PROFILE OF ATTACKS AS NEW HUMANITARIAN CRISIS LOOMS
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor, reports on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby’s, concerns over ongoing violence targeting Christians in Nigeria…
Australian missionary nun again ordered to leave The Philippines
An Australian missionary has again been ordered to leave The Philippines after the Bureau of Immigration ruled she was in violation of the conditions of her visa. The bureau, which said she had violated the terms of her missionary visa, also ordered Sr Patricia Fox, a 71-year-old nun from the Congregation of Our Lady of […]
ESSAY: WHAT IS HEAVEN?
In an article first published on The Conversation, JOANNE M PIERCE, professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in the US, looks at the Christian concept of Heaven…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – WHOSE FRIEND?
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what James says in chapter four of his epistle about being double-minded…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Trump-Putin summit helps with religious freedom push
RNS Russia dominated the discussion on a telephone conference call with reporters and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday morning about next week’s meeting in Washington of government officials, religious leaders and representatives of nonprofit organisations to talk about international religious freedom. Asked about reports this week of Russian efforts to infiltrate American religious groups, even while […]