Christmas gifts come by boat to isolated Romanian Danube Delta villages
CA Rosetti, Romania Reuters For the elderly living in remote villages in the Danube Delta, one of the world’s largest wetlands, winter is a time of isolation. This year, they are also struggling to cope with a shortage of firewood and rising food prices. So, days before Christmas, Romanian coast guard officers braced against icy […]
Postcards: In Pakistan, a high mountain water pipe brings a bonus – peace
RINA SAEED KHAN, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the installation of a water pipe has changed a community in Pakistan…
Wycliffe looks to begin translations for 10 previously unknown language groups
Bible translation organisation Wycliffe Associates has said it is about to begin work in translating the Scriptures for 10 previously unknown language groups of people living in the Middle East and parts of Asia. The US-based organisation says the groups, which have very few Christians, don’t, as yet, have any of the Bible translated into their […]