Essay: Christian leaders in Ghana are trying to reshape government – it may not end well
Scholar of religion and politics, JEFFREY HAYNES, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at moves among some Christians to “remake Ghana according to their values and beliefs”…
Sight-Seeing: Only the enemy-loving Way of the Cross can save Israel and Gaza
NILS VON KALM reflects on how we, as Christians, are called to respond to the violence in Israel and Gaza…
“It was never a question”: Israelis channel anxiety over war into volunteering to support army and each other
MICHELE CHABIN, of Religion News Service, reports from Jerusalem on how Israelis of all faiths are stepping up to volunteer following last weekend’s terror attacks…
A third of Asian Americans say religion is very important in their lives – survey
United StatesRNS More Asian Americans identify as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious than before, according to a survey released Wednesday by Pew Research Center. But 40 per cent of those Pew surveyed, who included Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds, said they feel close to a religion for reasons aside from religion, […]
Water supply dwindling, Bolivians gather at dam to pray for rain
La Paz, BoliviaReuters Under a scorching sun, more than three hundred Bolivians on Friday marched to a dusty plain near the Incachaca dam that overlooks the city of La Paz, gathering to pray for rain and an end to a severe drought that has threatened their water supply. The 10 reservoirs that supply La Paz […]
Israeli police arrest suspects for spitting near Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem
JerusalemAP Israeli police said Wednesday they arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem this week as religious tensions flared anew in the contested capital that the three Abrahamic faiths consider holy. As Jews celebrate Sukkot – the weeklong Feast of Tabernacles that marks the fall harvest […]
Jews spitting on the ground beside Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land sparks outrage
JerusalemAP A video that shows ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshipers carrying a wooden cross in the holy city of Jerusalem has ignited intense outrage and a flurry of condemnation in the Holy Land. The spitting incident, which the city’s minority Christian community lamented as the latest in […]
Iraq wedding fire kills more than 100, relatives identify bodies
Mosul, Iraq Reuters A fire ripped through a packed wedding hall in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people in a Christian town that had survived Islamic State occupation. Fire fighters searched the charred remains of the building in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniya, through Wednesday morning and bereaved relatives gathered outside […]
Few persecuted Christians find refuge in US, new report finds
United States RNS Fewer Christians fleeing persecution in their native countries have found a safe harbour in the United States in the past half decade, according to a new report from a pair of Christian non-profits, which cites the effects of the pandemic and the dismantling of US refugee resettlement programs during the Trump administration. […]
Essay: US Congress needs to live up to its Christian protestations
The Most Rev JOHN STOWE, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, asks whether US politicians really want Christian values to prevail?…