At least six dead after armed gang attack in Rohingya refugee camp
Dhaka, BangladeshReuters At least six people were killed in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar on Friday, a police official said – the latest incident of violence in the world’s largest refugee settlement. A gang armed with guns attacked a religious school before dawn in Cox Bazar’s Ukhiya area and killed […]
Nigerian state to shut camps for people displaced by insurgency
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Nigeria’s Borno State, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state. The conflict between the insurgents and Nigeria’s armed forces has also spread to […]
No ‘Squid Game’: South Korea’s real-life debt trap
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Many small business owners in South Korea recognise themselves in the cash-strapped characters of the wildly popular Netflix drama Squid Game, who vie desperately for a chance to win $US38 million, exposing a debt trap that is all too familiar. Nearing retirement at 58, Yu Hee-sook paid off her debts long ago, […]
Orthodox Church’s top Patriarch to visit US, meet with Biden
RNS The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million Eastern Orthodox Christians brings an agenda spanning religious, political and environmental issues to a 12-day US visit beginning Saturday that includes a meeting with President Joe Biden and various ceremonial and interfaith gatherings. Making the latest of several trips to the country during his 30 years […]
Founding fathers: Methodist racial history recalled on 250th anniversary of Asbury’s US arrival
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, looks to remember the role Francis Asbury played in helping develop Methodism in America – and in the Black Christian experience in Philadelphia…
Sarah Davis, daughter of Ravi Zacharias, to start new ministry. Critics worry it is RZIM 2.0.
RNS The CEO of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries is leaving the beleaguered organisation, nine months after an independent investigation detailed the abuse and misconduct of the ministry’s late founder. The evangelical magazine Christianity Today reported this week that Sarah Davis, daughter of the late Zacharias, has resigned from RZIM to start a new Christian ministry tentatively named […]
Red Cross warns aid groups not enough to stave off Afghan humanitarian crisis
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters The Red Cross on Friday urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis. Afghanistan has been plunged into crisis by the abrupt end of billions of dollars in foreign assistance following the […]