World hunger levels rise for third year running, says UN report
Thomson Reuters Foundation World hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fuelled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, jeopardising a global goal to end the scourge by 2030. Hunger appears to be increasing in almost all of Africa and in South America, with 821 million people – one […]
BOOKS: HOW YOU CAN HELP TACKLE THE PLASTIC TSUNAMI
DAVID ADAMS reads Lucy Siegle’s exploration of how our oceans are being polluted by plastic and what we can do about it…
19 more Catholic institutions announce fossil fuel divestment
A group of 19 Catholic organisations have announced a commitment to divest from fossil fuels, taking to more than 120 the number of Catholic institutions which have done so worldwide. Led by Caritas India and the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the group – which also includes organisations located in Kenya, Fiji, Pakistan, and the US […]
The poor and vulnerable “suffer disproportionately” thanks to worldwide corruption, says UN chief
The poor and vulnerable “suffer disproportionately” as a result of corruption around the world, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN Security Council this week. Addressing the council on Monday, Guterres cited World Economic Forum data showing corruption costs the global economy an estimated $US2.6 trillion a year – or five per cent of global gross […]
POWER
The true test of a leader is if they can lay down power. The power of the cross. PICTURE: Gift Habeshaw/Unsplash A remarkable thing in our society is how a government can be in power one day, and politely vacating offices the next. In the course of history, this is a very strange thing! Most leaders […]
INDONESIA: PENTECOSTALS PREACH CHRIST DESPITE THE COST
STEFAN J BOS, of BosNewsLife, speaks with Johannis ‘John’ Hus Lumenta, the head of Indonesia’s main Pentecostal denomination…
Some 85 child slaves rescued from Sudan’s streets and gold mines
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 100 human trafficking victims have been rescued in a major police operation in Sudan, including dozens of children forced to work in illegal gold mines, Interpol said on Monday. Operation Sawiyan involved 200 Sudanese police officers who rescued 94 people, including 85 minors, from criminal networks in and around the capital, […]
ESSAY: WHY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS – AND ALL OF US – SHOULD STAND UP FOR THE UIGHURS
US Baptist Minister BOB ROBERTS on why Christians – and evangelical Christians in particular – should stand up for Uighur Muslims facing persecution in China…
SIGHT-SEEING: HOW TO SHOW CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY
BRIAN NIXON, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about the importance of hospitality…
Turkey replaces prosecutor who indicted US pastor Brunson
World Watch Monitor At the outset last week of Turkey’s new judicial year, the Izmir prosecutor who prepared the controversial indictment accusing US pastor Andrew Brunson of terrorism and espionage was reassigned to another bureau. Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul dismissed the transfer simply as a “routine procedure”with no particular significance, referring to Turkey’s common practice of […]