Australia welcomes drought-easing drenching, even as it brings floods
Sydney, AustraliaReuters The east coast of Australia welcomed the heaviest drenching in years on Friday, dousing some of the country’s most damaging and long-running wildfires and easing a drought that has crippled farming across two states. Sydney alone had seen more than 60 millimetres of rain in the past 24 hours and was forecast to […]
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: IN THE IMITATION OF GOD
BRUCE C WEARNE takes a look at the opening lines of Ephesians chapter five…
More than two dozen countries launch new religious freedom alliance
Washington DC, USRNS The US State Department announced Wednesday that 27 countries have joined the new International Religious Freedom Alliance that seeks to reduce religious persecution across the globe. “Together, we say that freedom of religion or belief is not a Western ideal, but truly the bedrock of societies,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
Trump takes jabs at political opponents during National Prayer Breakfast
Washington DC, USRNS Shortly before President Donald Trump delivered his speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, the event’s keynote speaker, Harvard University professor and author Arthur Brooks, asked the crowd, “How many of you love somebody with whom you disagree politically?” Many people in the audience raised their hands. Trump, sitting quietly a few […]
Two more churches closed in Algeria
Algiers, AlgeriaBosNewsLife Two more churches have been closed by courts in Muslim-dominated Algeria as part of a government crackdown on places of Christian worship, according to court documents seen by BosNewsLife. The closure orders were given to a church in the coastal city of Oran on 12th January and to the House of Hope church […]
ON THE SCREEN: THE BASED-ON-TRUTH STORY OF A JOURNEY TO “UNMERITED GRACE”
MARCUS CHEONG watches ‘Just Mercy’…
Militants kills young seminarian in Nigeria
Abuja, NigeriaBosNewsLife Michael Nnadi, one of four Catholic seminarians kidnapped by armed men from the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Nigeria’s troubled Kaduna state, has been killed, several Catholic sources have confirmed. “With immense sorrow, we must inform you that the last seminarian, Michael, in the hands of the kidnappers, was murdered,” said the Catholic charity […]
Rising seas, wild weather threaten to drown US airports by 2100
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Some of the world’s busiest airports, including in US cities such as New Orleans, Palm Springs in California and Key West, could be underwater by the end of the century if unchecked global warming pushes up sea levels, researchers said Wednesday. An analysis by the Washington-based World Resources Institute […]
China virus toll jumps past 500 as more cases found on cruise ship off Japan
Shanghai, ChinaReuters The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that has shut down Chinese cities and forced thousands more into quarantine around the world. Hubei province, the epicentre […]
REACHING OUT TO A “BROKEN WORLD”: REV NODDY SHARMA’S PASSION FOR THE CHURCH AND ITS MISSION
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Rev Noddy Sharma, World Vision Australia’s new head of church engagement, about the nexus between the church and the organisation, his own journey of faith, and World Vision’s new model for child sponsorship – Chosen…