AMAZON FIRES: HOW BLAZES ARE DEEPENING A SPLIT BETWEEN BRAZIL’S EVANGELICALS AND FELLOW CHRISTIANS
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, of Religion News Service, reports…
School for missionary children in Japan investigating allegations of past abuse
RNS The Christian Academy in Japan, a suburban Tokyo school founded in 1950 as a boarding school for the children of Christian missionaries, is investigating 66 cases of alleged past abuse of students at the school spanning decades. Those allegations include faculty physically and sexually abusing students mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, though a […]
ESSAY: HOW EVANGELICALS CAN SUPPORT MUSLIMS THIS RAMADAN
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KEVIN SINGER, co-director of Neighborly Faith – a US organisation helping evangelicals to be good neighbours to people of other faiths, looks at how Christians – and evangelicals in particular – can reach out to their Muslim neighbours during Ramadan…
As Sudanese protesters demand democracy, Catholic bishop pushes for freedom of worship
Nairobi, KenyaRNS A Roman Catholic bishop in Sudan has charged that the largely Arab and Islamic country’s ongoing popular revolution will be hollow if it does not also deliver freedom of worship for non-Muslim faiths. “A civil society movement has for the first time brought all Sudanese people together, and the church is part of […]
In the US, supporters of hospitalised Christian author pool funds to cover medical costs
RNS Friends, family and supporters of prominent Christian author Rachel Held Evans are pooling funds to help cover her medical expenses after she was hospitalised over the weekend and placed into a medically induced coma. Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu, authors and faith leaders who co-curate the Evolving Faith Conference with Evans, called on her […]
ESSAY: FOUR DECADES AFTER SAIGON FELL, WE STILL NEED REFUGEES AS MUCH AS THEY NEED US
Writing from the US in an article first published by Religion News Service, JULIET LIU, pastor and editorial director at Missio Alliance, looks at the “Biblical calling” of welcoming refugees…
Kenyan officials try to dispel fears of new ID labeled “mark of the beast”
Nairobi, KenyaRNS In Kenyan churches, the antichrist is a frequent sermon subject, one that often serves to feed controversial end-time conspiracy theories. Those fears of the apocalyptic figure, a seven-headed beast that rises from the sea in the New Testament Book of Revelation, are colliding with a new government effort to assign Kenyans a personal […]
BRAZIL: PRESIDENT’S WIN LEAVES HIM IN DEBT TO EVANGELICAL BLOC
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, writing for Religion News Service, reports on the role evangelicals played in the election of Jair Bolsonaro…
Canada reverses abortion rights proviso to summer jobs program
RNS Faith-based organisations in Canada are welcoming changes to the Federal Government’s summer jobs program that remove language interpreted by many to require support for abortion. “It’s encouraging to see that the government has heard and responded to our concerns,” said Julia Beazley, director of policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Canoes await campers. […]
Another church building sealed shut in Algeria
Morning Star News Authorities in Algeria sealed shut a church site on Tuesday, even after Christian leaders complied with orders to meet building codes, sources said. In Azaghar village near Akbou, about 185 kilometres east of Algiers in Bejaia Province, Kabylie Region, eight policemen sealed shut the doors of the Church of Jesus Christ, pastor […]