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- CATHERINE PEPINSTER
London
RNS
The Church of England’s most senior leaders are expected to rebuke Britain’s political leaders over their handling of Brexit at the church’s General Synod this week.
In a special motion at synod, just weeks before the Brexit deadline, the archbishops of Canterbury and York will urge
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- MATT BLOMBERG
A rising number of Cambodian women are being sold as brides in China but complaints and convictions are on the decline with many victims refusing to speak out because their families are colluding with trafficking rings, a regional police chief said.
Thousands of Cambodian women
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- David Adams
A Christian women's prayer meeting was disrupted in India on Sunday when a mob of Hindu hardliners verbally abused them and threatened to attack them if they meet again for prayer, sources have told religious freedom advocacy CSW.
About 30 women were at the meeting held in a
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- SEBASTIEN MALO
When jihadists on motorbikes surrounded a village in Mali’s Toubakoro commune last October, a US aid group helping local farmers improve their incomes found itself in a bind.
After their one staff member left the area for security reasons, reporting on the project’s progress to
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- LAURIE GOERING
The Hague, The Netherlands
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Climate change threats - from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean - are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure they don't spark new violence, security experts warned Tuesday.
"Climate change
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- David Adams
Gross human rights violations continue to take place amid renewed fighting in South Sudan, according to a new UN report.
In its third report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan found that the ongoing violence and human rights
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- STEPHEN BROWN
A film depicting a woman – Petrunya – who breaks church and social traditions by grabbing a cross thrown by an Orthodox priest into an icy river in an Epiphany ritual meant for young men has been awarded the prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 69th Berlinale film festival
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- ELLEN WULFHORST
The United Nations on Tuesday took steps to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse within its ranks, naming an array of experts to a panel aimed at ending incidents of harassment that have plagued the global agency for years.
The panel will advise the UN Secretary-General
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- ERIK TRYGGESTAD
Oklahoma City
The Christian Chronicle
When Phil Brookman preaches, even Alexa listens - and dutifully obeys.
Brookman, a minister for Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, was delivering a Sunday message from I Corinthians 12 when his sermon illustration nearly resulted in the purchase of
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
Chicago, US
RNS
Harvest Bible Chapel, an embattled Chicago-area megachurch, announced this past weekend that the executive committee of its elders will resign.
The resignations, which will take place over several months, came days after church elders fired James MacDonald, Harvest’s founding pastor.
Harvest
US lapsed and non-Christians open to talking about faith with the non-judgemental but don't see such a trait in Christians they know, research finds
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- David Adams
Most lapsed and non-Christians say they would be open to talking about faith matters with someone who listens without judgement - but only 34 per cent say they see this trait in Christians they know personally, according to Barna Group research.
The research, contained in a recent report, Reviving
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- BOB SMIETANA
Nashville, Tennessee, US
RNS
JD Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said the denomination’s executive committee should immediately investigate 10 churches named in a report by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News , including Second Baptist in Houston - one of the largest churches in the
