SNAPSHOT: ON THE WATER, ITALY
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Brazil sets new record for homicides with almost 64,000 in 2017
A record 63,880 people were killed in Brazil in 2017, a three per cent increase on the 2016 figures for homicides and an ignominious new record. The Guardian reports that figures from the independent thinktank, the Brazilian Public Security Forum, show an average of 14 people were killed by police every day – a 20 […]
MUSIC: ‘DWELL’, A FREE-FLOWING CLOSE ENCOUNTER
MARCUS CHEONG listens to David and Nicole Binion’s latest…
Record number of people charged for slavery in UK but convictions stall
Thomson Reuters Foundation A record number of people were charged with modern slavery offences in Britain this year, prosecutors revealed on Thursday, but activists said the number of convictions had not increased significantly since a tough new law was introduced in 2015. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said 239 suspects had been charged with modern slavery […]
Cancer-curing Marie Curie voted the most influential woman in history
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie was the most influential woman in history, Britain’s BBC found in a poll on Thursday, highlighting her role in curing cancer. Readers of BBC History magazine ranked Polish-born Curie at the top of a list of 100 women who changed the world, for becoming the first person […]
WILLOW CREEK: LEADERSHIP SUMMIT GOES ON DESPITE MASS RESIGNATIONS
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from Willow Creek’s annual Global Leadership Summit…
Raids on ‘illegal’ worship meetings in rebel-held Ukraine
World Watch Monitor A Pentecostal church in the rebel-held Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine was raided by armed men on 6th August, the latest in a series of raids on religious communities, reports Oslo-based news service Forum 18. The raid took place during a worship meeting at the Grace Church of God Pentecostal church in Alchevsk. […]
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – DO GOOD, QUIT BOASTING
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at what the Epistle of James says about living a life relient on God…
US Attorney General cleared in church complaint, perplexing some top Methodists
RNS United Methodist Church officials in Alabama have dismissed a complaint signed by more than 600 church members in July that chided Attorney General Jeff Sessions for implementing the family separation policy along the border and attempting to justify it with Scripture. But the logic of the decision, which cited a distinction between personal behavior […]