CONVERSATIONS: FINDING FAITH’S ANDREW TIERNEY AND TIM DUNFIELD
DAVID ADAMS catches up with Human Nature’s Andrew Tierney and US pastor Tim Dunfield – who last year released their first album as Finding Faith – about what’s been going on for them since…
Pope Francis’ Japan visit fulfills lifelong missionary dream
Vatican CityRNS As a young man, Pope Francis hoped to one day become a missionary in the island nation of Japan, inspired by the Jesuit missionaries who first brought Catholicism there. Soon, the pontiff will see his youthful dream come to pass as he embarks on a weeklong apostolic visit to Thailand and Japan starting […]
Taliban frees two Western prisoners, US sees hope for wider Afghan peace
Peshawar, Pakistan/Kabul, AfghanistanReuters The Afghan Taliban released American and Australian university professors held hostage for more than three years on Tuesday, Afghan, US and Australian officials said, completing a delayed prisoner swap and raising hopes for a revival of peace talks. American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks were kidnapped in August, 2016, from outside […]
BOOKS: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO PERSONAL AND CORPORATE RENEWAL
DAVID ADAMS reads Mark Sayers’ ‘Reappearing Church’…
Hong Kong leader urges peaceful resolution of campus standoff
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a standoff between police and a hold-out group of anti-government protesters at a university could be resolved and she had told police to handle it in a humane way. A last group of about 100 defiant protesters remain in the Hong Kong […]
Local water scarcity spilling over into global crisis, researchers warn
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Population growth and climate change are putting increasingly intense pressure on the planet’s limited water supplies, with worsening shortages emerging from the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, researchers and bankers said on Monday. “All the local crises around the world are building up to a global crisis,” Torgny Holmgren, […]
Christian begins sentence of exile in remote, Islamist area of Iran
Morning Star News A Christian in Iran convicted of conducting evangelistic activities began a mandated two years in exile this month in a remote area on the border with Pakistan, sources said. As part of a larger prison sentence delivered in 2013, Ebrahim Firoozi, 33, was sentenced to two years in exile in Sarbaz, a […]
Trump advisor calls Pompeo’s West Bank decision an answered prayer
Washington, DCRNS US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the US is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that concluded Israeli settlements in the region are “inconsistent with international law”. Speaking to reporters during a press conference, Pompeo said the […]
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Today we take universal human rights for granted. As humans we all deserve the same basic rights. This is a strange development for humanity. A sign at the Center for Civil Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US. PICTURE: Michelle Bonkosky/Unsplash For most of history we have operated in families, clans, tribes and clubs. Those […]
INDONESIA: “SURFER GIRLS” TURN THE TIDE ON SEXISM
BEH LIH YI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a social enterprise is helping girls find their feet – and not just on a surfboard…