Sight-Seeing: When suffering comes, God is close
NILS VON KALM says God never promised to keep us from suffering, but promised to be with us through it…
Protected status not enough to guard threatened nature reserves, scientists find
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Expanding the planet’s protected natural areas to safeguard vanishing forests and other ecosystems, and the species they protect, is unlikely to be effective on its own as human encroachment into reserves grows, scientists warned Tuesday. A study by Cambridge University researchers, which looked at thousands of conservation areas in more than […]
Niger adopts law to protect displaced people in first for Africa
Thomson Reuters Foundation Niger has adopted Africa’s first national law for the protection and assistance of people fleeing violence, floods and droughts, the government and United Nations said on Thursday. The government says there are about 174,000 displaced people in the West African country, mostly in regions where Islamist violence has spilled over from Mali […]
SIGHT-SEEING: FISH, FOWL – AND FAITH
RICHARD MOUW, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on a visit to a chicken farm…