Albania votes in its first female dominated government
Pristina, AlbaniaReuters Albania’s parliament on Friday voted in the first cabinet to be dominated by women since the multi-party system was introduced 30 years ago. After a parliamentary session which lasted more than 20 hours, Edi Rama was voted as prime minister for third time after a landslide election victory in April. A woman looks […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Roma Waterman and Rosanna and David Palmer honoured with Australian award
David and Rosanna Palmer were among those honoured with ‘legacy awards’ by Christian Media and Arts Australia. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Snapshot: Alexandria, Egypt
See GEORGE YOUSSEF’s image…
Lawsuit: Defrocked US Cardinal McCarrick abused man in 1980s
AP Three sex abuse lawsuits filed against a New Jersey diocese and announced Thursday include claims that defrocked US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a young man in the 1980s. The lawsuit accuses McCarrick of sexual battery against the man, who was in his late teens and early 20s when McCarrick was Bishop of the Diocese […]
Survey: Who Americans blame for insurrection depends on their faith
RNS A new survey finds white evangelicals are far more likely than most other religious groups to blame left-wing activists for the 6th January insurrection at the US Capitol. Other white Christian groups are split on the question, which allowed for multiple answers, while Black Protestants are more likely to point to white supremacists and […]
China accuses Washington of “low political tricks” over Uighur exhibit
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A US-backed Uighur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in camps in Xinjiang, China, opened in Switzerland on Thursday, prompting Beijing to issue a furious statement accusing Washington of “low political tricks”. The “Wall of the Disappeared” which also features interviews with camp survivors about […]
Another Texas execution delayed on religious freedom claims
Houston, Texas, USAP Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his religious freedom by not letting his spiritual adviser lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection. Ruben Gutierrez was set to be executed on 27th October for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old Brownsville woman in […]
Feared and forgotten: Congo’s Ebola orphans work to survive
KAHINDO SIFA BAHATI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been driven to work amid trauma, discrimination and fear around the disease…
Meet Anne Wilson, a 19-year-old US singer behind ‘My Jesus’, a surprise Christian hit
RNS Nineteen-year-old Anne Wilson loves the stars, the television show The Walking Dead and her morning cup of vanilla iced coffee from Dunkin’. “I feel like it’s just straight from God,” she said. “It’s like He blesses that coffee in particular.” More than anything, Wilson says, she loves Jesus – as the teenager from central […]
Essay: SpaceX Inspiration4 mission sent four people with minimal training into orbit – and brought space tourism closer to reality
Space scholar WENDY WHITMAN COBB, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the latest move in the race to space tourism…