Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren signals retirement with search for successor
RNS Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren on Sunday announced the church will begin the official search for his successor, signaling he will retire after 40 years in his pulpit. “That’s a big deal,” Warren said, in a moment of characteristic understatement. Saddleback Community Church, which Warren founded in 1980, is the second-largest church in the Southern Baptist […]
Essay: ‘Bride kidnapping’ haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young women to flee their homeland
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based researchers ERIN HOFMANN and GUANGQING CHI look at the problem of ‘bride kidnapping’ and its links with migration in Kyrgyzstan…
COVID-19 crisis makes electricity too costly for millions in Africa, Asia
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation The economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, international agencies warned on Monday. Two-thirds of those affected were in sub-Saharan Africa, deepening disparities in the […]
Sight-Seeing: True spiritual worship
NILS VON KALM looks at what the Bible tells us about the meaning of worship…
India to give adults free COVID shots; Christian humanitarian organisation warns of long-term effects of COVID crisis
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all adults, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, in an effort to rein in a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands and led to the world’s second-highest tally of infections. Modi’s announcement on national television came after weeks of criticism of a bungled vaccine […]