Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party are expected to receive the mandate to build Israel’s next government. While President Joe Biden has congratulated Netanyahu, there are signs that the administration is concerned about some of the religious leaders in this
Most of the world will focus on the economic quagmire facing new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, as well as the internal Conservative Party tensions which could cut short his time in office. In Israel though, Sunak’s statements about Jerusalem
SOLID JOYS AND LASTING TREASURES Could a 20-metre-high, multi-million-dollar steel monument erected atop Memory Mountain at Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), 230 kilometres west of Alice Springs become a lasting national treasure? This Forgiveness Cross has already given solid joy to residents
The Presbyterian Church of Australia has taken a strong stand on the issue of religious freedom in comments it has made in relation in the case of Andrew Thorburn who was recently sacked as the chief executive of the Essendon
The fight against extremist activist gender ideology has gone mainstream. In his recent budget-in-reply speech, Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton made a comment that most of the media missed. But it’s possibly the most important one line he’s spoken
Victims of religious oppression in Turkey shared their stories at a religious freedom event at the European Parliament where the speakers suggested that political and social atrocities in that country were behind the Christian population’s decline from 20% to a
A majority of Protestant pastors in the United States believe the current state of the economy is negatively impacting their churches, according to a new poll. Lifeway Research released a report based on responses from 1,000 Protestant pastors conducted from
World Vision is calling for urgent action to prevent 110 million girls being forced into child marriage by 2035. It has tracked the opportunities of young girls in 40 low and middle income countries, including the 20 with the highest
Christian parents are calling on the Church of England (CofE) to urgently abandon transgender guidance which says that children as young as five should be affirmed if they want to identify as the opposite gender. In an open letter to
The growing reluctance of young people in China to have babies is exacerbating a demographic crunch emerging as one of the biggest long-term challenges facing the country’s ruling party. Over the past decade under President Xi Jinping, the population increased
