G7 offers emergency aid for Amazon forest fire crisis
Biarritz, France/Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Monday offered $US20 million of emergency aid to help battle wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, a gesture Brazil slammed as colonialist. Despite record wildfires in the Amazon and President Jair Bolsonaro previously saying his government lacked the money to fight the blazes, […]
Christian NGOs join in call for Rohingya refugees’ rights to be respected
Christian aid and development groups are among more than 60 which have joined in calling for the human rights of Rohingya Muslims to be respected in Myanmar and for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to participate in decision-making processes about their future – including their possible return to Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In a statement released last […]
Trump caught off guard as Iran’s Zarif visits G7 summit town
Biarritz, FranceReuters Iran’s foreign minister paid a visit to a G7 summit in France on Sunday, an unexpected twist to a meeting already troubled by differences between US President Donald Trump and Western allies over a raft of issues, including Iran. A White House official said France’s invitation to Mohammad Javad Zarif for talks on […]
450th anniversary of publication of the ‘Bear Bible’ marked in Mexico
The 450th anniversary of the publication of the ‘Bear Bible’ – the first complete translation of the Bible into Spanish – is being marked with an exhibition in Mexico, reports Evangelical Focus. PICTURE: Via Wikipedia The exhibition at the Benmerite Autonomous University of Puebla consists of 49 items including one of the 32 surviving copies of the […]
SLAVERY: MALE SURVIVORS IN UK STRUGGLE TO GET SUPPORT AS NUMBERS SOAR
SONIA ELKS and KIERAN GUILBERT, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Australia to block internet domains hosting extremist content during terror attacks
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events and will consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services, officials said on Sunday. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is in France to take part in the G7 leaders’ forum, said the government intended […]
ESSAY: CATHOLIC CHURCH SEX ABUSE – THE DIFFERENCE A PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY MADE IN LIVES OF SURVIVORS
US scholar BRIAN CLITES, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at why the release of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania a year ago was a “watershed moment” for sex abuse survivors…
THIS LIFE: WHY DO YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the origins of her belief…
At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown
World Watch Monitor At least 150 Eritrean Christians were arrested by government officials during the last two months, with some of them held in an underground prison made up of tunnels. The most recent arrests occurred on 18th August when Eritrean security officials detained 80 Christians from Godayef, an area near the airport of the […]