Sight prays all our readers have a great start to 2017! And to celebrate the new year, we’ve taken a look back at the year that was and present 12 stories that helped to shape our 2016…
Sight prays all our readers have a great start to 2017! And to celebrate the new year, we’ve taken a look back at the year that was and present 12 stories that helped to shape our 2016 (of course, these are just a sample of the stories and issues we covered – delve into features and essays pages for much more!). We hope you enjoy and look forward to journeying through 2017 with you…
IRAN: US-IRANIAN PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI FREED IN PRISONER SWAP
Morning Star News reports that US-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini has been released from prison in Iran as part of a prisoner swap agreement with the US more than three years after he was arrested…
ESSAY: THE ‘PANAMA PAPERS’ AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
BEN THURLEY, national coordinator of Micah Australia, talks about why Christians should care about the revelations contained in the Panama Papers..
ECUADOR: RESCUE AND RELIEF EFFORTS CONTINUE IN SOUTH AMERICAN NATION AS DEATH TOLL RISES IN WAKE OF MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE
DAVID ADAMS reports on the going relief and rescue efforts taking place in Ecuador following last Saturday’s massive earthquake…
NIGERIA: RETURN OF ONE CHIBOK GIRL RAISES HOPES FOR THE 218 STILL MISSING
The World Watch Monitor reports…
EVANGELISM: WILL GRAHAM’S MISSION TO BRING THE “GOOD NEWS” TO ALICE SPRINGS
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Will Graham, grandson of Billy Graham and the latest member of the family to hold a major evangelistic event in Australia…
AUSTRALIAN ELECTION: CHRISTIANS URGED TO JOIN IN PRAYER FOR THE NATION AND THE WORLD’S POOR
DAVID ADAMS reports…
REFUGEES: MORE THAN 65 MILLION – ONE IN EVERY 113 PEOPLE ON THE GLOBE – DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES, ACCORDING TO UN REPORT
DAVID ADAMS reports on new UN figures showing the number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution around the world continues to reach unprecedented levels…
ESSAY: BREXIT REQUIRES NEW BRAND OF LEADERSHIP
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER, chairman of the UK-based thinktank 2020Plus, reflects on what the Brexit decision means for the UK…
ESSAY: THE OLYMPICS AS A REFLECTION OF THE DREAM OF GOD
NILS VON KALM argues that the Olympics, at their best, are a reflection of a “renewed creation”, the embodiment of what is possible when we live for something beyond ourselves…
CHURCH: REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY OPPORTUNITY FOR REFLECTION ON PAST AND CRITICAL LOOK AT PRESENT, SAYS WCC GENERAL SECRETARY
DAVID ADAMS caught up with Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, during his recent visit to Australia and New Zealand, to talk, among other things about ecumenism, inter-faith relationships and the upcoming 500th anniversary of the Reformation…
MISSION: FROM POP STAR TO ORTHODOX PRIEST – REV THEMI’S QUEST TO BRING HOPE TO THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE
Having recently steered his “flock” through the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Greek Orthodox priest Rev Themi Adamopoulo spoke to DAVID ADAMS while back in Melbourne recently about his mission there and his amazing journey from Sixties pop star to the slums of Freetown…
US: ARE EVANGELICALS EXPECTING TOO MUCH FROM A TRUMP PRESIDENCY?
With exit polls showing more than 80 per cent of evangelicals in the US voted for President-elect Donald Trump. R eporting from the US for Religion News Service, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JEROME SOCOLOVSKY look at what expectations follow…
