Posts Tagged ‘community’
Christian Living
Thousands of South Africans Live Near Toxic Mine Dumps
A century of digging for gold has created a silhouette of mine dumps all around the South African city of Johannesburg. The legacy of intensive soil excavation in South Africa’s economic capital is toxic waste and radioactivity...
Featured
Unsure of future, tiny Amish sect clings together after beard-cutting convictions
Inside a one-room schoolhouse, Lizzie Mullet pulls her attention away from her students and focuses on the biggest issue facing them: their families.
News
America goes back to church en masse
On Sept. 16, in the largest grassroots movement of its kind, 13,152 congregations of various denominations, styles and theologies united in a single cause to invite an estimated 7.5 million friends, family, neighbors and cowork...
Arts & Culture
Documentary highlights racial reconciliation Sanford, Fla. following death of Trayvon Martin
A new documentary, "Sanford: the Untold Story," highlighting the racial reconciliation journey being experienced in the historic city of Sanford, Fla., following the tragic death of Trayvon Martin last February, is being aired ...
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: Redemption?
Daryl showed up at my friend’s home carrying about thirty extra pounds and the weight of the world on his shoulders.
News
Prayers scrapped at Edinburgh city council meetings
The BBC is reporting that Edinburgh City Council in Scotland is to stop holding prayers during its meetings
Annan set to brief UN amid reports of new massacre in Syria
U.N.-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan is due to brief the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly on the situation in Syria, as activists have accused pro-government militia and security forces of carrying out a new massacre ...
News
Phoenix 6-year-old inspires nearly 5,000 people to donate $105K for clean water projects
Recently, Ethan Wolfe, a six year-old Phoenix boy heard that people in Haiti had to drink "dirty water" every day and asked his family what they could do about it.
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Pro-Tutu petitions flood Gonzaga
SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) After nearly 700 people tried to push Gonzaga University to rescind its commencement speaker's invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu , supporters of the anti-apartheid hero responded with 11,000 signatures...
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Anti-Shariah movement loses steam in state legislatures
(RNS) At this point in 2011, 22 state legislatures had either passed or were considering bills to prohibit judges from considering either Islamic law, known as Shariah, or foreign law in their decisions. What a difference a ye...