THIS LIFE: A STRATEGY TO BOOST THANKFULNESS
MICHELLE MITCHELL, ambassador for Australia’s National Day of Thanks as well as an author, public speaker and educator, looks at how we can encourage gratitude among our children…
US Indigenous mission pioneer Bob Finley dies at age 96
Robert “Bob” V Finley, the founder of US mission organisations Christian Aid Mission and International Students, Inc, has died at the age of 96. Finley, who was born in Virginia where he attended university, worked as an evangelist with Youth for Christ and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship after his graduation in the 1940s, sharing platforms […]
Death toll rises in southern Africa in wake of Cyclone Idai
The death toll from Cyclone Idai in the southern African nations of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi has now passed at least 600 with thousands of people still in need of immediate help. The cyclone striuck Mozambique earlier this month centred on the port city of Beira before moving over land to Zimbabwe and Malawi. On […]
JOHN SMITH: BIKIES TURN OUT IN THEIR HUNDREDS TO FAREWELL MINISTER TO THE MARGINALISED
DAVID ADAMS reports on the memorial service to iconic Australian preacher and evangelist John Smith…
Empty dresses spotlight North American violence “epidemic” against native women
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation Dozens of empty red dresses sway in the wind at the foot of Capitol Hill, reminding passersby of the thousands of native women recorded murdered or missing in the United States and Canada in recent decades. An art installation launched this month at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, […]