This Life: Kindness should be part of our stories
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article published on ASSIST News Service, writes about the importance of kindness…
Tonga reconnects to world as submarine cable restored after tsunami
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation. “People on the main island will have access almost immediately,” Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told Reuters by telephone, after […]
Southern Baptist Executive Committee agrees to a resolution with Jennifer Lyell
Nashville, Tennessee, US RNS Southern Baptist leaders announced on Tuesday that they had reached a resolution with a sexual abuse survivor whose story was mishandled when she came forward in 2019. Jennifer Lyell, a former publishing executive for Lifeway Christian Resources, told Baptist Press in 2019 that she had experienced abuse for years at the […]
Spain’s Church seeks to add credence to enquiry of alleged child abuse
Madrid, SpainReuters Spain’s Catholic Church sought to give more credence to an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of minors, saying on Tuesday a law firm would coordinate and audit the effort, in a move a victims’ group has already dismissed as a “smoke screen”. The allegations are only gaining traction now in Spain, years […]
Updated: West unveils sanctions with more ready if Russia carries out full-scale Ukraine invasion
Updated: 10:45am (AEDT)Moscow, Russia/Donetsk, Ukraine/Washington DC, USReuters Western nations on Tuesday punished Russia with new sanctions for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and threatened to go further if Moscow launched an all-out invasion of its neighbour. The United States, the European Union and Britain announced plans to target banks and elites while […]
US slams Russian ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine as “nonsense”
United NationsReuters The deployment of what Russia called a peacekeeping operation in eastern Ukraine is “nonsense” and Moscow’s recognition of breakaway regions as independent is part of its pretext for war, the United States told the UN Security Council on Monday. The consequences of Russia’s actions “will be dire – across Ukraine, across Europe, and […]
World Court Myanmar genocide case clouded by representation dispute
The Hague, The NetherlandsReuters The World Court started to hear preliminary arguments on Monday in a case brought against Myanmar demanding that it halt alleged acts of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, with representatives of the junta appearing for Myanmar. Presiding Judge Joan Donoghue briefly addressed the debate over who has the right to […]
Books: Jonathan Franzen’s literary liberal Protestantism pushes limits on where God is found
JACOB LUPFER, in an article published on Religion News Service, says that with his latest book, ‘Crossroads’, US author Jonathan Franzen has elevated a rarely explored form: the Protestant Christian novel…
What to expect at this week’s Southern Baptist Executive Committee meeting
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS After four months of relative peace and quiet, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will meet this week, their first in-person gathering since a series of contentious meetings led to the resignation of more than a dozen committee members. The Nashville-based Executive Committee, which oversees the business of the nation’s largest Protestant […]
Easter Island ‘Moai’ stone statue begins long journey home
Santiago, ChileReuters A huge “Moai” statue, one of the iconic stone monuments from Easter Island, began its journey back home on Monday following a years-long campaign to get it returned to its original setting since it was housed in a museum in Santiago in the 19th century. The 715 kilogram sculpture will be transported by […]