SNAPSHOT: CANOES ON A BEACH, LAOS
See IOANA FARCAS’ image…
Desperation driving Rohingya to traffickers, UN envoy warns
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Human traffickers are increasingly targeting Rohingya living in Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands fled after a brutal military crackdown in 2017, a UN investigator warned on Thursday. About 730,000 Rohingya were driven from Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh, where they live in squalid refugee camps, fearing further persecution […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Rebecca St James signs album deal, Hillsong Worship’s ‘King of Kings’, and THE SAGA’s ‘Fearless’…
Hillsong Worship’s latest album, King of Kings. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
US-based Christian Book Distributors drops CBD initials to avoid cannabis confusion
RNS A popular US Christian bookseller is changing its name after a deluge of requests for cannabis-related products. For years, Peabody, Massachusetts-based Christian Book Distributors has been known by the initials CBD. The logo for newly rebranded Christianbook company. PICTURE: Courtesy of Christianbook The bookseller announced last month it will now go by “Christianbook” to avoid confusion with […]
June, 2019, was the hottest June on record across the globe – NOAA
Reuters June, 2019, was the hottest June in 140 years, setting a global record, according to the latest monthly global climate report released on Thursday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report said the average global temperature in June was 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average of 59.9 degrees F […]
DEBT RELIEF: HOW CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY IS ENCOURAGING CHURCHES TO HELP ALLEVIATE FINANCIAL WOES – AND BUILD COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Rosie Kendall, chief executive of Christians Against Poverty in Australia, about how the organisation partners with churches to help people struggling under the weight of debt…
As religious freedom summit ends, US State Department announces new alliance, sanctions
Washington, DCRNS Trump administration officials announced a new alliance with US partners focused on religious freedom and new sanctions against foreign military officials supporting countries the US considers to be instigators of religious persecution. The developments on Thursday were among the highlights of the last day of the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. […]
ESSAY: FACEAPP – A RECIPE FOR ID THEFT
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, highlights privacy concerns when using apps like FaceApp…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: FREEDOM IN CHRIST
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his series on Galatians, looks at Paul’s rebuttal to those who would like to live under the law…
In the US, nuns, other Catholics, arrested protesting treatment of immigrant children
Washington, DCRNS Police arrested dozens of protesters, including many Roman Catholic nuns, at a rally Thursday opposing the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant children along the Southern border, treatment that organisers of the demonstration said amounted to atrocities. Officials with the advocacy groups Faith in Public Life and Faith in Action reported that 70 people […]