Christian clergy among those caught in wave of kidnappings in Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News A Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest in two different states in north-central Nigeria were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday (25th March), sources said. Amid a nationwide wave of kidnappings including last week’s discovery of the body of another abducted Catholic priest in southern Nigeria, Rev Emmanuel Haruna of the Evangelical […]
Cambodia returns land taken from indigenous people in “unprecedented” move
BangkokThomson Reuters Foundation Cambodia has returned land taken a decade ago from Indigenous communities for a Vietnamese company’s rubber plantation, a sign that foreign investors are facing greater scrutiny over rights violations, analysts said on Wednesday. The governor of the north-eastern province of Ratanakiri on Tuesday asked the agriculture ministry to take out 64 areas […]
BOOKS: A 40 DAY JOURNEY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
DAVID ADAMS reads singer-songwriter and musician Jean Watson’s 40 day devotional…
STRANGESIGHTS: SQUAWKING LIKE A SEAGULL; BINGE-WATCHING MARVEL; AND, A PLANE LANDS (BUT IN THE WRONG CITY)
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
Christians in Mali offer condolences after at least 150 massacred in Fulani village
The Catholic bishops of Mali have joined with the country’s evangelical Christian leaders in expressing their condolences after at least 150 Fulani people, including some 50 children, were massacred in an attack on a village on Sunday. Fr Alexandre Denou, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Mali, told Agenzia Fides that prayers would […]
One in three fear losing homes in West and Central Africa, poll finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly one in three people living in West and Central Africa fear losing their homes and land in the next five years, according to a survey of 33 countries, making it the region where people feel most insecure about their property. More than two in five respondents from Burkina Faso and Liberia […]
Poor lose out as rich countries link aid with trade, says UK thinktank
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Rich countries are using their aid budgets to promote their own national interests rather than focusing on helping people in poor countries, according to research published by a global thinktank on Tuesday. As populism and economic pressures rise, countries that have pledged to spend part of their national income on aid are […]
REMEMBRANCE: HOW HOLOGRAMS AND AI ARE BEING USED TO PRESERVE FIRSTHAND STORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
NANCY CHURNIN, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports on how US museums are using advanced technology to record survivors’ stories for future generations…
Most Americans continue to oppose religious service refusals to LGBT people, survey finds
RNS A new survey finds that Americans continue to oppose the idea that small business owners should be able to refuse products or services to gay or lesbian people due to their religious beliefs. The survey by the Public Religion Research Institute follows up on findings released last week that show strong majorities within all religious groups also support nondiscrimination […]
ESSAY: APOLLO 11 BROUGHT A MESSAGE OF PEACE TO THE MOON – BUT NEIL AND BUZZ ALMOST FORGOT TO LEAVE IT BEHIND
In an article first published on The Conversation, US space lawyer MICHELLE LD HANLON writes – as the world prepares to commemorate the 1969 Moon landing later this year – about the importance of preserving historic sites on the Moon…