‘Revitalise Australia’ helping churches that have “plateaued” to reach new heights
Sydney, Australia Australian churches that have plateaued in their growth or are in decline are being encouraged to engage with a new 12-month mentoring program to “grow into great, multiplying churches and leaders”. Developed by City to City Australia – the church planting organisation founded by US evangelist Tim Keller – Revitalise Australia aims to […]
Essay: As kids return to school, we must protect their right to rest. Sabbath practices can help.
Writing as children return to school in the US after their summer break, KATE H RADEMACHER, who works in international public health and is the author of ‘Reclaiming Rest’, on how the discipline of ‘Sabbath-keeping’ can help children…
Postcards: Christian residents of two northern Israeli ghost towns renew bid to go home
BOTRUS MANSOUR reports for Religion News Service on the push to allow Christians communities to return to the towns of Iqrit and Biram which they were ordered to leave in 1948…
California, LA County both to pay $US400,000 settlement to John MacArthur’s church
RNS The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to authorise a $US400,000 payment to settle a legal battle with Grace Community Church over lead pastor John MacArthur’s defiance of COVID-19 restrictions in the early months of the pandemic. Under the agreement, which the board unanimously approved without discussion, the state of California […]
Interfaith group asks Poland to help migrants at border
Warsaw, Poland AP An interfaith coalition called on Polish authorities Tuesday to give humanitarian aid to a group of migrants who have been stuck in the open air at Poland’s border with Belarus for more than three weeks. The coalition, which includes Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives, noted that the people stuck at the border […]