Iraq: Mosul Christians tell of ISIS’ forces takeover
World Watch Monitor The radical Sunni Islamist ISIS forces continue their takeover of cities in Iraq. Many have fled possible clashes between ISIS and the Iraqi army, and the feared violence ISIS has already shown in places it controls, such as Syrian city Raqqa. SAFE HAVEN? View over the city of Erbil where Christians from […]
Washington groups demand freedom for Sudanese mother on death row
BosNewsLife Dozens of human rights and faith groups began demonstrating on Thursday in front of the White House for the release of Meriam Ibrahim, the 27-year-old mother of two sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan. Before her execution by hanging, she is to receive 100 lashes for her marriage to a South Sudanese Christian. […]
BOOKS: NEVER PREDICTABLE, THE SUNBURNT CIRCUS TOUCHES ON SOME OF LIFE’S BIG QUESTIONS DRAWING ON AUTHENTIC, AUSTRALIAN VOICES
LAUREN MUSCAT reads Jim Reiher’s The Sunburnt Circus…