Biblical auction: Early Christian Scripture and ancient codices draw collectors’ eyes to Paris
The starring role in an upcoming auction at Christie’s will be taken by the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the oldest known book in private hands. CATHERINE PEPINSTER, of Religion News Service, reports that it contains the oldest complete version of the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah…
Christian leaders work to heal the wounds of Angola’s civil war
Nairobi, Kenya Christian leaders in Angola have launched reconciliation programs aimed at healing the wounds of the civil war that ended over two decades ago, leaving nearly one million people dead and displacing four million. Between 1975 and 2002, the Southern African nation of now more than 35 million people was embroiled in one of […]
Essay: Sudan’s civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight
In an article first published on the Conversation, JAN POSPISIL, an associate professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the UK, looks at the two-year-old conflict in Sudan and the challenges facing a peaceful resolution…
This Life: When the innocent pay the price
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on recent events in Sydney…
UN rights chief “horrified” by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson. Palestinian authorities reported finding hundreds of bodies in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in […]
Explainer – United Methodists open first top-level conference since breakup over LGBTQ inclusion
United States AP Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference. It’s a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held every four years, but church leaders delayed the 2020 gathering until now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rev K Karen, left, of St Paul & St […]
Spain sets up fund for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain is to set up a fund, to be financed largely by the Catholic Church, to compensate an estimated 440,000 victims of decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, staff or teachers, the justice minister announced on Tuesday. A report in October by Spain’s human rights ombudsman produced the estimate from a […]
Russian drone attack injures nine in Ukraine’s Odesa, officials say
Reuters Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of them children, and also targeted Kyiv, the capital, Ukraine’s military officials said early on Tuesday. The injured children, which include two infants, have been hospitalised, as well as three of the injured adults, the […]
Migrants drown in English Channel hours after UK passes Rwanda policy
Wimereux, France/Dover, UK Reuters Five migrants, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat on Tuesday, hours after Britain passed a bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in a move to deter the dangerous journeys. The deaths occurred when a boat […]
Israel steps up strikes across Gaza, orders new evacuations in north
Reuters Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”. Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also reported in central and […]