No news of Chinese Catholic priest missing for eight months
World Watch Monitor Nothing has been heard from a Chinese Catholic priest, now missing for eight months after he was taken away by the authorities in December, 2017, UCA Catholic news agency reports. Any contact with Fr Lu Danhua was lost after the personnel of Qingtian Religious Affairs Bureau visited him in his dormitory of Qingtian […]
BOOKS: GETTING TO GRIPS WITH PASTORAL CARE IN TODAY’S WORLD
DARREN CRONSHAW reads Lynne M Baab’s latest book on pastoral care…
Where is the promised money, campaigners ask at climate talks in Bangkok
Thomson Reuters Foundation Developed countries are dragging their feet on meeting their pledges of billions of dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change, leaving poor nations with mounting costs from rising temperatures, rights groups said. Rich governments have promised to mobilise $US100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020 to help poorer nations […]
Thailand called to release detained Vietnamese Montagnard refugees
World Watch Monitor Thailand should release the group of ethnic minority refugees and asylum seekers, mostly Christians, arrested last week during a crackdown just outside the capital Bangkok, rights groups say. Most of the 181 refugees detained are Montagnards, an indigenous group from Vietnam who face “harsh persecution if they are returned to Cambodia and Vietnam, […]
No safe haven for girls in crisis-hit Lake Chad region – survey
Dakar, LiberiaThomson Reuters Foundation Teenage girls living in Africa’s insurgency-hit Lake Chad region have no safe haven from the violence, with beatings and abuse happening in their homes, on the streets and at school, a survey found on Monday. The region, which takes in parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, is suffering from a […]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: AS SUDAN HOSTS PEACE TALKS, RUSSIA OFFERS TO GET MORE INVOLVED
The World Watch Monitor reports…
World Council of Churches says US decision to stop funding UN agency helping Palestinian refugees is “amoral and unjust”
The US Government decision to stop funding a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees is “amoral and unjust”, according to the head of the World Council of Churches. The US State Department announced the decision to stop funding the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees late last week, saying that it has previously made it […]
ESSAY: FAITH AND FRIENDSHIP AS A REMEDY TO THE US OPIOID CRISIS
KATELYN BEATY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to America’s opioid crisis…
GENESIS – A LOVE STORY
I love that the second story in Genesis is a love story. PICTURE: Element5 Digital/Unsplash Adam has been created but he is alone. No suitable partner can be found for him. God walks every animal past Adam, which he names (and I’m sure delights over), but none of them can complete him; not even man’s […]
CONVERSATIONS: DAVID WILLERSDORF, “VINTAGE” SINGER/SINGWRITER
Australian singer/songwriter David Willersdorf is about to release his next album, ‘Outside the Inside’. Heading off on a tour of Australia’s east coast in support of the album – which includes the single ‘Outside Yourself’, the 46-year-old who’s based on the Sunshine Coast speaks with DAVID ADAMS about the journey he’s been on to embrace […]