Conversations: Photographer Stephen Wilkes’ Easter Sunday at St Peter’s
JIM MCDERMOTT reports, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that an exhibition of the photographer’s Day and Night view of the Vatican on Easter, one in a series of Wilkes’ epic shots of religion festivals, vaults the day into an almost cosmological framework…
FIJI: FOR UPROOTED SURVIVORS OF A DEADLY CYCLONE, MENTAL SCARS LINGER
LAURIE GOERING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on who Fijians are coping in the aftermath of Cyclone Winston – the first Category 5 storm to hit the South Pacific – which devastated parts of the island nation in 2016…
CENSUS: ALMOST A THIRD OF AUSTRALIANS TICK ‘NO RELIGION’ BUT MORE THAN HALF IDENTIFY AS CHRISTIANS
DAVID ADAMS reports on what the 2016 Census reveals about Australia’s religious landscape…
Some 30 language groups – 95 million people – received Scriptures in native tongue for first time in 2016, says United Bible Societies
BIBLE TRANSLATION AROUND THE WORLD: Some 3,655 languages still have no Scriptures in their language according to the latest UBS report. GRAPHIC: United Bible Societies. Lumasaaba speakers of Uganda, Mongondow speakers of Indonesia and Inupiaq speakers of Canada were among 30 different language groups, accounting for some 95 million people, that received at least […]
New research highlights most “under-reported” humanitarian crises in 2016
Food crises in Eritrea and North Korea, ongoing fighting in the Lake Chad Basin nations of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, and floods in Bangladesh were among the most under-reported humanitarian crises in 2016, according to aid organisation CARE International. The top 10 list also includes food crises in Madagascar and Papua New Guinea as well […]
THIS LIFE: LET’S START A PRAYER REVOLUTION IN THE NEW YEAR!
Writing from the US, CAROL ROUND calls for a “prayer revolution” in 2017…
EDITORIAL: WELCOME TO 2017!
Sight editor DAVID ADAMS looks to the year ahead…
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Farewell 2016 – a stellar year for Christian music…
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THIS IS THE END?
Many have wondered at the number of famous people who have passed away in 2016. Remembering those who departed in 2016. PICTURE: ibgwd/www.freeimages.com It seems like many more than usual are coming to the end of their life. Some have wondered if God is taking all the good people before something bad happens. I don’t […]
INDIA: PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS INCREASES DRAMATICALLY IN FIRST HALF OF 2016, SAYS REPORT
A new report finds there has been a significant escalation of the persecution of Christians in India in the first half of 2016. Morning Star News reports…