Trump at brink of impeachment as US House committee approves charges
Washington DC, USReuters Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Friday took Republican President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment by approving two charges against him over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden. A badly divided House Judiciary Committee voted 23 to 17 along party lines to […]
Winning big, Johnson on course to deliver swift Brexit
London, UKReuters Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to take Britain out of the European Union in matter of weeks. For Johnson, whose 20-week tenure in power has been marked by chaotic scenes in parliament and stark division on the streets over Britain’s tortuous departure from […]
Al-Shabaab singles out 11 to kill in bus attack in northern Kenya; raises fear for Christians
World Watch Monitor Eleven people, almost all known to be Christians, were killed during an attack by the Islamist al-Shabaab group on a bus in Kenya’s border region with Somalia on 6th December. The militants forced the bus, owned by Medina Bus Company (which transports people and goods between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and north-east Kenya), to stop […]
MUSIC: BEAT THE SYSTEM’S ‘JOURNEY’ A DYNAMIC VOYAGE OF TRANSFORMATION
MARCUS CHEONG reviews Beat The System’s debut album…
Soundbite – The TCM Update: for KING & COUNTRY and Hillsong Young & Free dominates charts in 2019
for KING & COUNTRY, which along with Hillsong Young & Free, have dominated the top sopt on the TCM charts in 2019. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
“It could’ve been me”: India women demand safety as recent rapes prompt hundreds of petitions
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta’s first reaction to the gang rape and murder of a female veterinarian last month in India’s IT hub of Hyderabad that sparked massive protests across the country was that of many Indian women: “It has happened again”. After being “disturbed” for days, the 24-year-old this week started an […]
Christians, Jews have smaller families, solo living and parenting styles – study
RNS Dana Perry, a 42-year-old divorced mother of three, lives in the small North Carolina town of Wilson, where she is rearing her sons in the Christian faith. Her boys, ages 18, 16 and 11, go to church alongside her on Sundays and attend youth group at another church on Wednesdays. “It hasn’t changed anything […]
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘ESSENTIAL CHRISTMAS!’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s December poster…
New Zealand recovers six bodies from volcanic island in high-risk mission
Whakatane/Wellington, New ZealandReuters A New Zealand military team recovered six bodies on Friday from the volcanic island that fatally erupted earlier this week, in a high risk operation watched by dozens of grieving family members waiting on the mainland. Military personnel worked as quickly as possible after using helicopters to land on White Island, which […]
BRAZIL: HISTORIC BLACK LAY CATHOLIC ‘BROTHERHOODS’ FIGHT TO SURVIVE
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, of Religion News Service, looks at the struggle of Catholic associations for their future survival…