In Syria, a poor wheat harvest adds to food worries
Qamishli, Syria Reuters Poor rainfall, fuel shortages, soaring fertiliser prices: it’s been a bad year for farmers in north-eastern Syria where a disappointing wheat crop looks set to deal another blow to food supplies in a country grappling with climate change and war. Farmer Mohamed Hussein said he planted around a fifth of the area […]
Ukraine’s besieged farmers fear war-time harvest “hell”
Mykolaiv, Ukraine Reuters As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine’s top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire. They see Russia’s shelling of the Nika-Tera port facility in the southern city of Mykolaiv on 4th June as […]
This Life: Bringing hope to a hopeless world
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about the Christian’s call to bring in the harvest…
Eating the leftovers: COVID-19, food crisis give new life to ancient practice of gleaning
ELIZABETH E EVANS, in an article published by Religion News Service, reports on the revival of an ancient practice…
Report pins Harvest’s “massive corporate governance failure” on former pastor
Chicago, USRNS A “massive corporate governance failure apparently developed over several years” at Harvest Bible Chapel primarily because of its former senior pastor, James MacDonald, according to a report released Thursday evening by the Chicago-area megachurch. The report by Chicago-based law firm Wagenmaker & Oberly pinned that failure on MacDonald’s “powerful and subversive leadership style”, his […]
Stop burning fields to cut smog and boost profits, scientists tell Indian farmers
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Every year, a choking smog descends on north-west India as the region’s farmers burn their fields following the rice harvest – a phenomenon that has helped make New Delhi one of the world’s most polluted cities. Now, scientists have come up with a method that would allow farmers to sow their […]
Billboard depicting evangelist Greg Laurie holding a Bible removed from California mall
Billboards depicting US evangelist Greg Laurie holding up a Bible – used to advertise an upcoming SoCal Harvest outreach event – have been removed from a shopping mall in southern California. CBN News reports that the ads, which featured an image of Laurie holding up the Bible – which has no words or a cross […]
OPEN BOOK: II THESSALONIANS – THE HARVEST TO BECOME HARVESTERS
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at chapter 2 of II Thessalonians…