Forty-five states yet to join international Genocide Convention are being naive, says UN advisor
The failure of some 45 UN member nations to join the international Genocide Convention is both puzzling and shows their naivity, according to a UN special advisor. Adama Dieng, special advisor to the UN secretary-general on the prevention of genocide, told the Human Rights Council this week that joining the convention was a “moral obligation […]
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘JESUS – LEADERSHIP THAT LASTS’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s September poster…
Walk in the park – cities fight climate change with greenery
Thomson Reuters Foundation US cities and towns should ensure that every resident lives within 10 minutes’ walk of a park as part of their climate action strategies, an advocacy group for open spaces said. According to The Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based non-profit, 100 million US urbanites lack such access. Central Park, New […]
Australia gets ticks for trade and settling immigrants but found wanting in terms of emissions, foreign aid and refugees, new index finds
Australia has ranked well compared to other Western nations in its efforts to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals when it comes to trade with developing nations and settling immigrants but less so in terms of CO2 emissions, foreign aid and aiding refugees, according to the findings of a new index. The Global Neighbour Index 2018, released […]
THE INTERVIEW: WILL GRAHAM AND HIS “DAUNTING” ROLE PLAYING HIS FAMOUS GRANDFATHER IN ‘UNBROKEN’ SEQUEL
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, talks to Will Graham about his role in ‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’, in which he plays his famous grandfather, Billy Graham…
Parents of kidnapped Nigerian girl Leah Sharibu awaiting government action amid groundswell of support
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News The father of a high school girl kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria is pleased by Christians’ support but said he has yet to hear from government officials. Nathan Sharibu, father of Leah Sharibu, told Morning Star News by phone that no one from the government has called the Christian […]
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – PERSISTENT, PASTORAL PROPHETIC, PRAYERS
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his commentary on the Epistle of James, on the letter’s climactic ending…
Family of murdered Pakistani Christian MP open training centre for women
World Watch Monitor The family of the murdered Catholic MP Shahbaz Bhatti is opening an education centre for Christian women and girls in Khushpur, eastern Pakistan, reports AsiaNews. Khushpur, near Faisalabad in Punjab province, is the largest Christian settlement in Pakistan and the area where the former minister for minorities came from and where he is buried. A […]