Violence in the Bible
The older I get the more I have been struck by the violence in the Bible. It’s easy to get high and mighty about such violence; to cast a critical eye on it and call for the whole book to be tossed aside. What we don’t realise is that the only reason we find the […]
Another Chibok schoolgirl escapes with baby in Nigeria – report
World Watch Monitor A Nigerian Government spokesman, Sani Usman, told media another girl, believed to be one of the nearly 300 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram in April 2014, was discovered in Pulka in northern Borno State. Maryam Ali Maiyanga was found by soldiers screening escapees from Boko Haram’s […]
Blocking of same-sex marriage plebiscite may work to “secure the preservation of marriage”, says ACL
The blocking of the Federal Government’s plans for a national plebiscite on the issue of legalising same-sex marriage in the Senate last night “might work to secure the preservation of marriage in the long term”, according to the Australian Christian Lobby. A bill to hold a non-binding plebiscite on the issue of changing the Marriage […]
Thousands attend beatification of Albanian Catholic martyrs
BosNewsLife (with Linda Bordoni of Vatican Radio) Dozens of Catholic martyrs who were killed between 1945 and 1974 by Albania’s Communist regime for their faith in Jesus Christ have been beatified according to Catholic tradition in the northwestern Albanian city of Shkodër. Up to 20,000 people attended an emotionally charged Mass in and around the main […]
Protests in Algeria call for release of ill Christian
World Watch Monitor Protesters in Algeria have called for the release of Slimane Bouhafs, an evangelical Christian jailed for three years in September for “insulting” Islam and the prophet Muhammad in his social media posts. A crowd gathered in the northern city of Tizi Ouzou lobbied for Mr Bouhafs to be allowed access to medical […]
THIS LIFE: SEVEN WAYS TO DISCOVER MORE ‘AWE’ IN YOUR LIFE
CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at how to recapture a sense of ‘awe’ in your life…