Sight-Seeing: Three tips for dealing with disillusionment
Australian writer MELANIE J SAWARD, author of ‘Disillusioned – When You Get Lost Following Jesus’, looks at the Scriptural answer for how to begin your journey out of disillusionment…
US missionary gets 15 years for sex abuse at Kenya orphanage
Philadelphia, USAP A Christian missionary from Pennsylvania expressed remorse as he was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Thursday for sexually assaulting girls at a Kenyan orphanage he led. Gregory Dow, 61, of Lancaster, and his family started the Dow Family Children’s Home near Boito, Kenya, in 2008 and operated it for […]
Biden, former presidents, urge Americans to forgive and unite at National Prayer Breakfast
RNS The message of the 2021 National Prayer Breakfast can be summed up in the title of a book by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize-winning South African cleric: No Future Without Forgiveness. Indeed, Andrew Young, civil rights leader and former ambassador to the United Nations, referenced the title of the book in his prerecorded […]
Red Cross to help poor countries with vaccines
Geneva, SwitzerlandAP A top international Red Cross organisation has announced a 100-million Swiss franc ($US110 million) plan to help support the immunisation of 500 million people worldwide against COVID-19 amid concerns about vast inequalities in the rollout of coronavirus vaccines between rich and poor countries. Seniors wait to be vaccinated with China’s Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 […]
Updated: UN Security Council calls for release of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi; Biden tells generals to go
Updated: 11.30am (AEDT)Reuters The United Nations Security Council called for the release of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military and stressed the need to uphold democracy, but stopped short of condemning this week’s coup. In the United States, the din of voices weighing in to warn the generals to […]
Sri Lanka’s leader vows action against 2019 bombing militants
Colombo, Sri LankaAP Sri Lanka’s President said Thursday that he has received the final report of an inquiry commission investigating the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks and vowed he will not allow anyone responsible for the deaths of more than 260 people escape justice. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not disclose what’s in the report, saying […]
Australian police find no crime in Vatican money transfers
Canberra, AustraliaAP Australian police said Wednesday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct in money transfers from the Vatican that a financial agency mistakenly inflated by almost $US1.8 billion and fueled corruption speculation. Australian Federal Police investigated the transfers to Australia that the country’s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, reported to the Senate in December amounted […]
Sight Helpdesk: Digital hoarders – we’ve identified four types; which are you?
In an article first published on The Conversation, NICK NEAVE, associate professor in psychology, and director of the Hoarding Research Group at Northumbria University in the UK, looks at the problem of digital hoarding…
US faith-based groups cheer, share hopes for Biden’s family reunification task force
RNS Faith-based organisations are celebrating the creation of a taskforce to help reunite separated children with their families. Those same organisations had been involved in caring for children separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. David Xol-Cholom of Guatemala hugs his son Byron at Los Angeles […]
US Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
Washington DC, US AP The US Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in US courts over claims that property was taken from Jews during the Nazi era. The justices sided with Germany in a dispute involving the […]