New Zealand PM repeats offer to take refugees held by Australia
Thomson Reuters Foundation New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday again offered to resettle 150 asylum seekers sent by Australia to offshore camps, including one in Nauru, a Pacific island nation where leaders from both countries are set to meet next month. Australia declined New Zealand’s offer last November to take asylum seekers sent […]
“Lost generation” looms for Rohingya refugee children without education
Phnom Penh, Cambodia/New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a “lost generation”, the United Nations said on Thursday, a year after Myanmar’s army began a crackdown that has forced more than 700,000 people to flee the country. The lives and futures of more than […]
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Elvis and Christian music, and The Kingdom Choir’s new deal…
‘Elvis Presley – Where No One Stands Alone’ has debuted in the Top 20 of the ARIA albums chart. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
ON THE SCREEN: ‘BOOK CLUB’ A LIGHT-HEARTED TAKE ON THE AGE-OLD QUESTION OF LOVE
MARCUS CHEONG watches ‘Book Club’…
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘GOD IS DEAD – FAKE NEWS’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’S August poster…
Catholic politicians are to “try and be a witness”, says Pope
Catholic politicians are called on “first and foremost” to “try to be a witness” and propose laws consistant with a Christian view of humanity and society, Pope Francis has told a meeting of Catholic legislators. Addressing the 9th annual meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network at the Vatican this week, the Pope addressed the issue of […]
With sensors and apps, young African coders compete to curb hunger
Thomson Reuters Foundation From an app to diagnose disease on Zambian farms to Tinder-style matchmaking for Senegalese land owners and young farmers, young coders have been finding solutions to hunger in the first Africa-wide hackathon on the issue. Eight teams competed in the hackathon, organised by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and a Rwandan […]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: DENOMINATIONS REPENT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN LAND GRABS
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how several Protestant denominations, having repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the idea laid out in a series of 15th-century papal bulls that justified appropriating native land, are considering how to act on it…
Church near Kampala, Uganda closes after months of Islamist attacks
Morning Star News A church outside Kampala, capital of Uganda, has closed after months of area Muslims pelting its gatherings with rocks, sources said. The final blow came on 4th August, when a stone thrown through a window struck Pastor Moreen Sanyu of Greater Love Church in Namasuba Para Zone, Wakiso District, and knocked her […]
ESSAY: IT’S TIME TO GET #KIDSOFFNAURU
In an edited version of a speech presented at the Tasmanian Prayer Breakfast this week, CLAIRE ROGERS, CEO of World Vision Australia, talks about a new campaign – #KidsOffNauru – in which more than 30 organisations are demanding all children on Nauru be removed by 20th November…