Unity among Cuban Christians unprecedented following constitutional vote
World Watch Monitor Cuba’s vote for a new Constitution was characterised by an unusual level of opposition as well as an unprecedented unity among churches. Nearly 87 per cent of the voters approved a new constitution in a referendum held last Sunday (24th February), while about 15 per cent stayed at home and more than 700,000 people voted […]
At least 40 Christians killed in two attacks in Kaduna State, Nigeria – sources
Morning Star News At least 32 people were killed in a Muslim Fulani herder attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria on Tuesday, sources said. The early morning assault on villages in and around Maro, in Kajuru County of Kaduna state, came after a 10th February herdsmen attack on Angwan Barde, in the same […]
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Government plea sees India’s top court halt eviction of millions of forest-dwellers
Thomson Reuters Foundation India’s Supreme Court on Thursday stayed its earlier ruling that had ordered the forced evictions of millions of indigenous people whose land claims were rejected, after the central government said states needed more time to examine claims. Earlier this month the Supreme Court issued an order to remove forest-dwellers in 21 states […]
Surge in Somalis fleeing violence may lead to “catastrophe”, warns aid agency
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Conflict and insecurity forced 320,000 people in Somalia to flee their homes last year – a surge of almost 60 per cent on the previous year, a leading aid agency said on Thursday, warning of a humanitarian catastrophe if the trend continued. Somalia has been mired in conflict since 1991 and […]
Churches work to heal the wounds of Brazil’s deadliest environmental disaster
One month after a dam near an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Brazil, burst its barrier, flooding another dam down below, churches have been actively working in the area, comforting hundreds of families in grief and joining hands with the public agents who are offering humanitarian relief to the people in the region. The incident […]
IMMIGRATION: HE SURVIVED TRAFFICKING; CAN MEXICAN CHEF WEATHER TRUMP?
US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented rhetoric and crackdown on immigration might alter the fate of millions of migrants. ELLEN WULFHORST, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the story of one of them – and how his faith sustains him…
US top court sympathetic toward Maryland cross in major religion case
Reuters US Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled a willingness to let a 12 metre tall cross-shaped war memorial stay on public land in Maryland despite a legal challenge that called it an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. But during a lively 70 minute oral argument in the major case about the separation of church […]
ESSAY: WHY CHURCHES SHOULD NOT MEASURE THEIR GROWTH AGAINST THE ECONOMIC BOOM
In an article first published on Religion News Service, ARTHUR E FARNSLEY II, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI, looks at why, despite the financial advantages of megachurches, smaller churches remain important in the US…