Niger: YWAM kidnap
World Watch Monitor
Date posted: 1 Dec 2016
The kidnap of a pioneering American missionary on 14 October is a ‘terrible tragedy’ for
the communities he served for 24 years,
according to the local mayor, and it has
raised security concerns among the country’s missionary community.
Jeff Woodke, 55, who worked for a branch
of the US-based Youth With a Mission, was
abducted by unknown assailants from the
town of Abalak
in northern Niger. They
killed two guards and he was taken to eastern Mali where Mujao – a radical Islamic
group – have a stronghold.
Australia: faith and federal elections
Peter Riddell
Date posted: 1 Sep 2016
Around 15 million Australians voted in the
Federal election held on 2 July.
Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull had called for a double dissolution
election, so seats in both the lower house, the
House of Representatives, and
the upper
house, the Senate, were up for grabs. After
winning a landslide in the 2013 Federal election,
Turnbull’s
conservative
Liberal-National Party Coalition government was
expected to win comfortably.
Not the same God
Victoria Vinet
Date posted: 1 Sep 2016
On 12 July at The Law Society in Chancery
Lane, London, Christian Concern hosted a
book launch for Not the Same God, written
by two former Muslims, converts to the
Christian faith.
Christian Concern is a non-profit organisation founded by Andrea Williams. She said of
the book that it ‘certainly shines a spotlight on
contemporary culture’, one in which there is
considerable pressure to minimise differences
between religions and to accept that Muslims
and Christians worship the same God.
What is a nation?
Jim Sayers
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
As the debate over the united nations of Europe floods our media, Jim Sayers asks a pertinent question.
2016 is the year for the people of Britain to think hard about nationhood.
Rebuilding a nation
Phil Reid
Date posted: 1 Jan 2016
Phil Reid walks us through the ideas embedded in Nehemiah 8.1–12
A nation lies in ruins. There is a need to rebuild – physically, morally, spiritually.
