Five men sentenced to life in prison over murder of three Christians in Turkey nine years ago
Morning Star News After a nine year legal saga, a Turkish criminal court has sentenced five men to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. The Malatya First Heavy Penal Court this week found Salih Gurler, Cuma Ozdemir, Abuzer Yildirim, Hamit Ceker and Emre Gunaydin guilty […]
StrangeSights: Rocks with personality – the 2016 Ig Nobels; a real-life Transformer; and more…
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…
Some 3,000 churches across 21 denominations taking part in Australia’s sixth National Church Life Survey
About 3,000 churches across 21 denominations around Australia have registered to take part in the 2016 National Church Life Survey – the sixth of its kind – over the next two months. NCLS Research, which oversees the survey, said the churches have ordered more than 400,000 surveys between them in what is the latest incarnation […]
CASTING THE NET: BIBLE PLACES
DAVID ADAMS looks at Bible Places…
Australian blueberry producer to support farmers in some of the world’s poorest communities
World Vision Australia has announced New South Wales blueberry company Mountain Blue Farms will donate five cents from every blueberry punnet sold in Coles stores to projects helping farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries. Mountain Blue Farms, which was founded by Ridley Bell after he introduced the blueberry to Australia in 1976 and […]
Conversations: Richard Gamble, Prayer Wall visionary
Former Leicester City Football Club chaplain Richard Gamble has a dream to build a wall commemorating a million answered prayers in the UK. He speaks with DAVID ADAMS about the monumental project…
Iraq: How one Christian monk is using his experiences to help others
World Watch Monitor reports on how Raeed, a monk from Qaraqosh, is drawing on his own experiences of hardship – including being run over by a US tank and being forced to flee when the so-called Islamic State invaded his home – to help others in Iraq…