THIS LIFE: DON’T LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on finding peace in troubled times…
Kenya pledges to end FGM by 2022 – ahead of global target
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Kenya’s President on Tuesday promised to end female genital mutilation by 2022, a goal women’s rights campaigners said was unrealistic due to insecurity and high prevalence rates in some parts of the east African nation. One in five women and girls aged between 15 and 49 in Kenya have undergone FGM, […]
Updated: Australian High Court set to hear ex-Vatican treasurer’s sex offences appeal
Last updated 8:45pmMelbourne, AustraliaReuters Catholic Cardinal George Pell will have one last chance to overturn his conviction for sexually assaulting two teenaged choirboys after the Australian High Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the former Vatican treasurer’s appeal. Pell, 78, the most senior Catholic official worldwide to be jailed for child sex offences, is […]
US bishops elect Mexican immigrant to head conference
Baltimore, USRNS The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has elected as its new president Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, California, a naturalised US citizen who emigrated from Mexico and is outspoken on immigration issues. Gomez, 67, was elected on Tuesday by a landslide on the first ballot during the bishops fall conference in Baltimore. […]
THE FINAL RACE
As we’re starting late, for our next book – until mid-January, 2020 – we’re reading Eric T Eichinger and Eva Marie Everson’s biography, The Final Race: The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire.
“Too late to leave”: Australians take shelter from intense bushfires
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Tens of thousands of Australians took shelter on Tuesday after authorities warned it was too late for them to leave their homes as bushfires raged across a vast area of the country’s east coast. Officials issued 11 emergency warnings in New South Wales, each covering several communities, as more than half the 71 […]
Pneumonia kills a child every 39 seconds, health agencies say
London, UKReuters Pneumonia killed more than 800,000 babies and young children last year – or one child every 39 seconds – despite being curable and mostly preventable, global health agencies said on Tuesday. In a report on what they described as a “forgotten epidemic”, the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF, the international charity Save The […]
Series of fires in Egyptian churches “not a coincidence”, say Copts
World Watch Monitor Three Coptic churches in the Upper Egypt region were hit by fires in the last three weeks which, the Copts say, is “not a coincidence”. On Friday morning, 1st November, a fire started in an adjacent hall of the Mar-Girgis (St George) al-Gyoushi Church in the Shubra district of the capital Cairo; it was […]
Two Armenian Catholic priests gunned down in Syria; Islamic State claims responsibility
Gunmen killed two Armenian Catholic priests when they opened fire on a car near the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor on Monday, according to reports. The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack which took place as the car was about to enter the city, having travelled from Qamishli. Two priests and […]
ABRAHAM EXPLORED: FAITH GROUPS REVISIT SHARED ROOTS IN INTERFAITH EXHIBIT IN BOSTON
AYSHA KHAN, of Religion News Service, reports from Boston…