Rising heat will chill poor countries’ economies, costing billions
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rising temperatures in a warming world will cost poor countries tens of billions of dollars annually as they are less able to keep their workers cool, analysts said on Thursday. Over the next 30 years, manual labourers in the agriculture, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors – which are the most […]
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‘The Case for Christ’ wins best film award
The Case for Christ – the film which follows former Chicago Tribune reporter Lee Strobel’s journey to faith – has won best film at the International Christian Visual Media’s Gold Crown Awards. The film, which was released by PureFlix and has grossed almost $US15 million, is based on a book of the same name that’s […]
US commission calls for Iranian Christians’ release after “new miscarriage of justice”
World Watch Monitor From left: Saheb Fadaie, Youcef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh and Mohammad Reza Omidi. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of an Iranian pastor and three of his church members, after they were taken to prison last week to serve 10 year sentences for “acting against national […]
UNITED METHODISTS: DEBATE, LOBBY AND WORRY IN ADVANCE OF LGBT DECISION
MARY JACOBS reports for Religion News Service on how the United Methodist Church in the US is grappling with the ongoing debate over LGBT clergy and same-sex marriage as it heads for a showdown in February that will determine whether the denomination will split up or go forward together…
Agencies warn of ‘war on children’ in Yemen as thousands flee bombs
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Yemeni children are fleeing bombing attacks on the port of Hodeidah every day putting them at risk of starvation and disease, aid organisations said on Thursday, as fresh strikes hit the city. About 6,000 people are abandoning Hodeidah every day, half of them children, the charity Save the Children said, […]
ESSAY: HOW’S YOUR CONFIG.SYS? OR, THE FUTURE OF SMARTPHONES
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, looks at what a new report reveals about smartphone use in the UK…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – A FRESH READING OF SCRIPTURE
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his examination of the Epistle of St James, looks at how James calls for unity…
Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his “kith and kin” – Christian Association of Nigeria
World Watch Monitor Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership is more divided than at any time in the country’s history, the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Adamawa State chapter has declared in a letter sent to him on 1st August. Condemning the “mindless massacre” of the predominantly Christian farming communities by Fulani herdsmen, CAN claims that no […]