THE BIG PICTURE: JESUS SAID: “WHAT GOOD IS IT TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD BUT LOSE YOUR SOUL?”
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Eight artists spotlighting the human cost of migration
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Videos of children playing on fluorescent pink seesaws on the US-Mexico border – an art project to highlight the impact actions on one side have on the other – were shared by thousands of people on social media this week. People play on a set of fluorescent pink […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: ‘King of Kings’ highest charting Hillsong Worship single in Australia
Hillsong Worship. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Quick facts: Ebola, a year into Congo epidemic
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation More help is needed to beat Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian and medical groups said on Thursday, as they marked a year since the epidemic was declared. More than 2,500 people have been infected in what is now the world’s second worst outbreak of the disease in history. Congolese people […]
Colombia creates “elite unit” of labour inspectors to combat human trafficking
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Colombia is training dozens of inspectors to hunt down cases of labour trafficking and exploitation, a response to the needs of migrants from Venezuela who are at high risk of being victimised, officials said on Wednesday. About 1.3 million Venezuelans have crossed into neighboring Colombia, fleeing political and economic turmoil, and […]
Syrians fleeing war allowed to stay longer in the United States
Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration will allow about 7,000 Syrians who have fled war in their country to stay 18 months longer in the United States, extending them a temporary protection on Thursday it has tried to deny to other migrants. The United States grants Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants whose home countries […]
US SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY: FROM NEW YORK TO ALABAMA, BLACKS WORSHIPPED IN OWN SPACES BEFORE ABOLITION
As the US marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of African slaves in Virginia, ADELLE M BANKS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how black communities gathered in their own churches in the years before the official abolition of slavery…
A group of former house church Christians ordered to stop meeting together in China, reports CSW
A group of former members of an unregistered house church in China have been ordered to stop meeting together after authorities in the south-west province of Guizhou accused them of carrying out illegal activities, according to religious freedom advocacy CSW. The Christians are all former members of the Living Stone Church – an unregistered house […]
ESSAY: MORE CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS TAKE SHELTER IN CHURCHES, RECALLING 1980S SANCTUARY MOVEMENT
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARIO GARCIA, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, looks at the history of the church-based sanctuary movement in the US…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: THE WAY
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at how Paul urges the Galatian churches to follow ‘The Way’…