This Life: Connecting with God in creation
MATTHEW SMEAL, of Baptist World Aid Australia, writes that one of the best places to connect with God is in nature in this excerpt from Baptist World Aid Australia’s new devotional, ‘The Earth is the Lord’s!’…
Lindley Methodist Church becomes UK’s 4000th ‘Eco Church’
Lindley, Huddersfield, UK Lindley Methodist Church in Huddersfield, England, has become the 4,000th Eco Church, conservation charity A Rocha UK has announced in a milestone which comes as the UN COP26 climate negotiations began in Glasgow this week. Helen Stephens, church relations manager for A Rocha UK, said the organisation was “thrilled to welcome the 4000th church to the […]
Four-year-old Australian girl missing from campsite found alive after two weeks
Sydney, AustraliaReuters A four-year-old girl who went missing from an Australian outback campsite more than two weeks ago has been found “alive and well” in a locked house, authorities said on Wednesday. Police broke into a house in Carnarvon, a town about 100 kilometres south of the campsite, early on Wednesday morning and found Cleo […]
Orthodox Patriarch blesses shrine near 9/11 memorial
RNS The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians gave his formal blessing Tuesday to an ornate shrine that will replace a small parish church destroyed during the 11th September, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, nearing the completion of a 12-day US visit from his home base in Turkey, […]
World should respond to climate change as if hit by a global war, Pope tells COP26
Glasgow, UKReuters Pope Francis said on Tuesday that the twin wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change were comparable to those caused by a global conflict and should be confronted in the same way. Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall, at the Vatican, on 13th October. […]
Dozens killed and wounded as blasts and gunfire hit Kabul hospital
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site in central Kabul, officials said. The explosions hit the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital and were followed with an assault by a group of […]
Nearly 90 countries join pact to slash planet-warming methane emissions
Glasgow, UKReuters Nearly 90 countries have joined a US and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30 per cent by 2030 from 2020 levels, a pact aimed at tackling one of the main causes of climate change, a senior Biden administration official said. The partnership will be formally launched later […]
Migrant caravan limps north through Mexico, despite dengue and exhaustion
Mapastepec, MexicoReuters A caravan of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean resumed its trek through southern Mexico on Monday, despite concerns that half of them could be injured or sick, including some from dengue fever. Over the past week, the approximately 3,000 migrants, mostly women and children, have trekked […]
Hope for path out of Sudan’s crisis in days, UN envoy says
United NationsReuters Mediators hope the “contours” of a way out of the crisis in Sudan could emerge in the coming days, the UN special envoy said on Monday. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan toppled Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s cabinet a week ago and arrested key politicians. Hamdok remains under house arrest in his residence, Volker Perthes […]
Most white US evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country – study
RNS Should America be a nation made up of people from a wide variety of religions? A growing number of religious and non-religious Americans say yes, according to a new study from Public Religion Research Institute. But there’s one religious group that stands out: White evangelical Christians; 57 per cent indicate they’d prefer the US be a […]