Churches at risk: In the UK, National Churches Trust launch campaign calling for action to protect historic places of worship
ANGELA YOUNGMAN reports on efforts to conserve England’s religious heritage…
Essay: From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
Social scientists OSAMAMEN OBA EDUVIERE and BRADY G’SELL, of the University of Iowa, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – detail the findings of the Homebuilding in the Heartland research project…
Safe haven?: LGBTQ+ refugees face hardships in Kenya’s Kakuma camp
TONNY ONYULO reports on the plight of the LGBTQ asylum-seekers and refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya…
Abandoning community?
Numerous studies have begun to point out the seismic shift happening across Western society. It’s being noticed in all our once great cultural icons – Rotary, scouts, sporting groups and churches: the abandonment of community. PICTURE:Nilotpal Kalita/Unsplash That leaves me in a cold sweat. Westerners are abandoning community!? We are a human species, we only […]
At a church rectory in Boston, Haitian migrants place their hopes on hard work and helping hands
Boston, USAP When Ernseau Admettre decided to leave Haiti and head north with his young family in tow, very little was guaranteed. But the situation in his homeland, beset by poverty and gang violence, had grown so dire that a risky passage to and then across the United States’ southern border offered a kind of […]
New US Homeland Security guide aims to help houses of worship protect themselves
Washington DC, US AP A new guide from the US Department of Homeland Security released Wednesday aims to help churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship protect themselves at a time of heightened tensions in faith-based communities across the country. Hoboken Police officers stand watch outside the United Synagogue of Hoboken, on 3rd November, 2022, in […]
Unable to go to church: Burkina Faso’s Christians living under threat of attacks
TONNY ONYULO reports on attacks from Islamist extremist groups have left thousands of Christians living in fear and skipping church services for fear of being murdered or kidnapped…
Churches aid families impacted by East African floods
Nairobi, Kenya Hundreds of churches and humanitarian agencies in the East African nation are aiding families affected by major floods that have claimed 71 lives, displaced thousands of people, and uprooted thousands of homes, destroyed crops and other properties. The World Meteorological Organization has said in a recent report that the ongoing El Niño rains that started in early October are […]
Californian Governor signs laws to fast-track housing on church lands, streamline housing permitting process
Sacramento, California, USAP Religious institutions and non-profit colleges in California will be allowed to turn their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing under a new law aimed at combating the ongoing homeless crisis. The law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last Wednesday, rezones land owned by non-profit colleges and religious institutions, such as churches, […]
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 […]