Australia proposes to overhaul ‘broken’ environment laws
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia will overhaul its environment laws and set up a new nature protection agency which would have powers to make decisions on the approval of development projects, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Thursday. The move by the centre-left Labor government comes more than two years after an independent review found Australia’s environment […]
Two more churches closed in Algeria
Algiers, AlgeriaBosNewsLife Two more churches have been closed by courts in Muslim-dominated Algeria as part of a government crackdown on places of Christian worship, according to court documents seen by BosNewsLife. The closure orders were given to a church in the coastal city of Oran on 12th January and to the House of Hope church […]
Peaceful sit-in provokes order to close Algerian church – Christian leader
Tizi-Ouzou, AlgeriaMorning Star News Christian protest of Algeria’s church closures resulted in an order on Sunday to seal the church building of the head of the umbrella group of Protestant churches, the leader said. Salah Chalah, head of the Protestant Church of Algeria umbrella group (l’Église Protestante d’Algérie, or EPA), said the order he received […]
Carrier bag spat erupts as Islamabad moves to ban plastic
Islamabad, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation When inspectors showed up to investigate reports that a popular Islamabad take-out restaurant was flaunting the city’s new plastic bag ban last week, the response was less than contrite. Video footage – which quickly appeared on social media – showed one of the inspectors being grabbed and shoved. Islamabad’s district commissioner […]
ALGERIA: PROTESTANT CHURCHES CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO TREAT THEM FAIRLY
World Watch Monitor reports on calls from Protestant churches to give them equal treatment…