OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: THE GRAVE IS NOT THE END
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his series on Ephesians with a look at a passage highlighting what Christ did for all of us…
Pope Francis is not the first pontiff to cause controversy with a slap
Vatican CityRNS Sometimes even the Pope has to apologise for being grumpy. On Wednesday, Pope Francis kick-started the new year with an apology for slapping the hand of a woman who grabbed his arm in St Peter’s Square the night before. Pope Francis slaps a woman’s hand after she grabbed him near the Nativity scene in St […]
Updated: Australian navy races to rescue thousands as new fire threat looms
Updated: 12pmSydney, AustraliaReuters The Australian navy on Friday began the evacuations of some of the thousands of people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales. At the peak of the summer holiday […]
HEALTH INSIGHT: HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT SUNSCREEN WHEN YOU’RE BLINDED BY CHOICE
It’s summer in the southern hemisphere and in response Australian academics KATIE LEE and ERIN MCMENIMAN, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the dos and don’ts when it comes to selecting a sunscreen…
Scapegoats to supply chains: Five aims for the anti-slavery fight in 2020
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation With a decade for the world to meet a United Nations target of ending modern slavery, experts say anti-slavery efforts must be guided by survivors, supported by law enforcement and kept at the top of the global activism agenda. About 40 million people globally are estimated to be enslaved – in […]
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions
Pasadena, California, USReuters A NASA robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency’s mission to send humans into deep space. The US space agency last week showed off its Mars 2020 rover, whose official name […]
Military moves in to help mass-scale evacuation from Australian bushfires
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Tens of thousands of holiday makers raced to evacuate popular seaside towns on Australia’s east coast on Wednesday, fleeing ahead of advancing bushfires, as military ships and helicopters planned missions to rescue thousands more trapped by the blazes. Long queues formed outside supermarkets and petrol stations near high-danger areas as both residents and […]
VATICAN: ARCHBISHOP’S REMARKS ON ASSISTED SUICIDE STIR CULTURE WAR SKIRMISH
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, writing for Religion News Services, reports from Rome…
Rights groups call for Chinese pastor’s release after he is sentenced to nine years in prison
Chinese pastor Wang Yi has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he was convicted on charges including inciting to subvert state power and illegal business operations. The pastor – a former human rights lawyer who founded the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 2008, and who had criticised the government’s […]
ESSAY: TRUMP’S TWEETS AND ACTIONS AREN’T GOOD FRUIT – OR MORAL
MATTHEW ARBO, an assistant professor of theology and director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Oklahoma Baptist University, responds to a US theologian’s recent defence of US President Donald Trump in the wake of a Christianity Today editorial calling for the President’s removal…