Countries split on plastics treaty focus as UN talks close
Washington DC, US Reuters The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with agreement to end plastic pollution but a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led. More than 2,000 delegates from 160 countries, meeting in Uruguay in the first of a […]
US Indigenous mission pioneer Bob Finley dies at age 96
Robert “Bob” V Finley, the founder of US mission organisations Christian Aid Mission and International Students, Inc, has died at the age of 96. Finley, who was born in Virginia where he attended university, worked as an evangelist with Youth for Christ and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship after his graduation in the 1940s, sharing platforms […]
Essay: How a Christian movement is growing rapidly in the midst of religious decline
Authors of the recent book, The Rise of Network Christianity, Brad Christerson, professor of sociology at Biola University, and Richard Flory, senior director of research and evaluation at the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, write about the rise of the “Independent Network Charismatic” movement in the US…