THIS LIFE: MAINTAINING A SENSE OF WONDER AS WE AGE
In an article first published on ASSIST News Service, US columnist CAROL ROUND considers the joys that come with age…
Less than five per cent of 1.2 million refugees needing new homes resettled in 2018 – UN
Only 4.7 per cent of the 1.2 million people in need of a permanent new home were able to be resettled last year, according to new data from UNHCR. The UN refugee agency figures showed that just 55,700 refugees were resettled. The data shows that the US took 17,113, Canada 7,713, the United Kingdom 5,702, […]
British inquiry into church sexual abuse blasts UK’s papal nuncio
LondonRNS A British government inquiry into the sexual abuse crisis that continues to shake the Catholic Church has focused on the actions of the Vatican’s diplomatic service – its network of papal nuncios around the world. Under new policies put in place by Pope Francis, all sexual abuse cases now must be referred to the […]
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, former refugee and Obama White House advisor, to head Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in US
Chicago, USRNS When Krish O’Mara Vignarajah and her family arrived in the United States as refugees fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka, the community welcomed them with open arms. Her dad found a job as a schoolteacher in Baltimore, where the family, including the then nine-month-old Vignarajah, settled. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah poses for a photograph with […]
KNOW IT ALL: THE OPPORTUNITY ROVER
News last week that NASA’s Opportunity rover was finally confirmed dead, 15 years after it landed on Mars. DAVID ADAMS looks at some facts and figures about its journey out of this world…
Australian Christian Lobby welcomes push for national ban on Wicked Campers’ “offensive” slogans
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed calls from Victoria’s Roads Minister Jaala Pulford for state and federal governments to ban the offensive slogans seen on the vehicles of Wicked Campers. Pulford told ABC radio she had asked for the issue to be on the agenda of the next meeting of state and federal roads ministers. […]
Bulgaria urged to stop locking up stateless people by detained heart doctor
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A cardiac specialist, who was locked up in Bulgaria for six weeks because he has no nationality, has called on the government to stop treating stateless people like criminals. Sager Al-Anezi, who is from a large stateless population in Kuwait called the Bidoon, qualified as a doctor after moving to Bulgaria in […]
One in three in UK say Islam threatens British culture – report
RNS A new report finds that about 35 per cent of British people think that Islam is a threat to the British way of life in the wake of 2017 terrorist attacks and that anti-Semitism on the political left is an increasing issue in the UK. The anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate’s annual The State of […]
THE FATHER’S HEART
Several years ago, I took my son in for some quite routine surgery. There was a production line getting the same operation, so at first it all seems fine. In the image of the Father’s heart. PICTURE: Danielle MacInnes/Unsplash But there’s something about being there when the general anesthetic takes hold and walking out of […]
UNITED METHODISTS: IN KENYA, CHURCH OPPOSES ALLOWING LGBTQ CLERGY AND PRAYS FOR CHURCH UNITY WORLDWIDE
With same-sex weddings and LGBTQ clergy on the agenda at an upcoming United Methodist conference in the US, TONNY ONYULO, of Religion News Service, reports on how United Methodists in Kenya are approaching the issues…