More than 7,000 unaccompanied children cross from North Africa to Europe in first five months of 2016, says UNICEF

More than 7,000 unaccompanied children crossed from North Africa to Europe in the first five months of this year – twice as many as during the same period past year, according to the latest data from UNICEF. A room at an unaccompanied minor shelter in Trabia, Italy. Rainbow is a government administered centre for unaccompanied […]
Essay: Peace in a weary world

NILS VON KALM turns to the Bible to find peace in a time of wearying sorrow…
Postcards: East Germany’s “secular reality” a new challenge to Reformation traditions

In a story first run on the World Council of Churches’ website, STEPHEN BROWN writes about the challenge the “stubborn secularism” of eastern Germany presents the church…