LIFESTORY: IRAQI CHRISTIAN BOY NOEH UNDER HIS OWN ROOF AGAIN
World Watch Monitor reports on the story of Noeh and his family, now making a new life for themselves in the village of Karamles, Iraq, in wake of the the occupation by the so-called Islamic State…
Indian rock quarry slavery survivors welcome stiff sentence for their captors
Thomson Reuters Foundation Survivors of slavery at a rock quarry in India welcomed a stiff sentence handed to the owner and managers, and said on Monday that the rare ruling sends a strong warning to other employers. A court in Tamil Nadu state found three men guilty of using violence, intimidation and debt bondage to […]
US pastor released by Turkey prays with Trump
BosNewsLife After two years of detention, an American pastor was freed in Turkey and flown to the United States where he prayed with President Donald Trump who welcomed him at the White House. The arrival of Andrew Brunson at the Oval Office in Washington, DC, was the ultimate culmination of perhaps millions of prayers from […]
Microfinance an important tool to help alleviate poverty but two billion still struggle to survive, says Opportunity International Australia head
Microfinance has been an important tool in halving the number of people living in poverty over the past 20 years but there are still some two billion people living on less than $US3.20 a day, according Meredith Scott, CEO of microfinance and development organisation Opportunity International. In comments made to mark the start of Anti-Poverty Week […]
Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI made Catholic saints
Martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI are among seven people canonised as saints by Pope Francis on the weekend. Archbishop Romero was gunned down by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980 after denouncing military oppression at the start of El Salvador’s civil which ran until 1992 and claimed an estimated […]
Lawyer hopes ethical business can secure peace in the Philippines
Thomson Reuters Foundation Could ethical business be the key to ending one of Southeast Asia’s most intractable separatist conflicts? That is the hope of lawyer Anwar Malang, who has campaigned for decades to bring peace to a Muslim enclave of the Catholic-majority Philippines. The conflict in Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, has […]
Australian PM moves to tighten legislation to prevent religious schools discriminating against gay students
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he will tighten legislation to prevent religious schools from discriminating against gay students. The issue became a matter of public discussion last week when Fairfax Media published leaked excerpts from a report handed to government following a review into religious freedom led by former Attorney-General Philip Ruddock. In a […]
ESSAY: HOW ARE CHRISTIANS TO RESPOND TO THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT?
THEA ORMEROD, president of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, looks at how Christians should respond to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…