OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY: OVERSEERS AND DEACONS
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what Paul says in I Timothy about church leaders…
Uzbekistan’s military involved in raid on Baptist church – report
Uzbekistan’s military have taken part in a raid on a Baptist meeting for the first time, according to Forum 18. The Norwegian-based news service reports that on 25th November, as many as 40 officials raided a Baptist meeting in the capital Tashkent’s Yashnobod District. It says that for the first time, members of the National […]
Australia targets big business with world’s second anti-slavery law
Thomson Reuters Foundation Big companies and public bodies in Australia will have to disclose how they tackle modern-day slavery in their operations under a law passed on Thursday that activists say is tougher on business than Britain’s landmark 2015 anti-slavery legislation. The world’s second anti-slavery law, passed by Australia, requires companies with a turnover of […]
STRANGESIGHTS: “SINGING” MAILBOXES; LEANING TOWER STRAIGHTENS UP; AND ODD RECORDS…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
Desperate Venezuelan migrants fall prey to sex slavery in Colombia
Thomson Reuters Foundation Trapped and held captive in basements and bars across Colombia, growing numbers of Venezuelan women are falling prey to sex trafficking rings as mass migration from Venezuela to neighbouring Colombia shows no signs of abating, campaigners and prosecutors said. Destitute migrants fleeing Venezuela’s economic collapse and medicine shortages are being targeted by […]
Catholic bishops in Central African Republic call for day of “lamentation and prayer” on Sunday
Catholic Bishops in the Central African Republic have called for a “Day of Lamentation and of Prayer” to be held on 2nd December in memory of all the victims of violence in the nation. In a statement the bishops called for “all men and women of goodwill” to refrain from celebrating on 1st December – […]
Dutch church has been running services continuously for a month to stop deportations
A Dutch church has been running a 24-hour-a-day church service for the past month in an effort to stop an Armenian family from being deported. Australia’s ABC reports Bethel Church in The Hague has been running the service since 26th October in a bid to prevention the deportation of the family of five based on a […]
PHOTO ESSAY: IN THE SHADOWS OF PEACE – CHURCHES ACCOMPANY FRAGILE LIFE IN RURAL COLOMBIA
In a special report for Sight, ALBIN HILLERT reports on how churches in Colombia are helping former rebels transition from a life of guerrilla warfare to peaceful co-existence with local communities…
In remote parts of Uganda, a fight to stop preachers from discouraging medical care
Katakwi, UgandaRNS In this remote town in a deeply traditional corner of eastern Uganda, a 27-year-old Pentecostal pastor has been arrested after interceding to stop the medical care of a severely ill nine-year-old girl, telling her parents they should rely on prayer. The pastor, Richard Asutu of Save Soul International Ministries, has since been released […]
ESSAY: HOW THE SALVATION ARMY’S RED KETTLES BECAME A CHRISTMAS TRADITION
In an article first published on The Conversation, DIANE WINSTON, of the University of Southern California, looks at how the Salvation Army came to be associated with Christmas in the US…