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  • The vanguard

    While some may not have grown up in a church-going family, they have discovered God somewhere along the journey—maybe not even in a church setting. There are many in the house of God who can attest that they met God outside it, but this didn\'t just happen and it doesn\'t just happen.

  • Bomb classes and gun counts: trauma of Mosul children under Islamic State

    Schools in the east of the Iraqi city of Mosul are seeking to return to a semblance of normality after two years under Islamic State rule.

  • Beware false doctrine

    Throughout history there have been devastating consequences to false doctrine. In the 1930\'s there was a \'Nazi form Christianity.\' Church schools were closed and an \'anti-Semitic attitude\' was imposed. Heroes like Dietrich Bonhoeffer emerged. His courage is honored to this day.

  • Sport-Art – nicknames, acceptance and message

    Some years ago professional artist Jon Campbell won the Basil Sellers $100,000 Sport-Art Prize in Melbourne with an art work titled \'Dream Team\' which featured a wall framed with sports identities nicknames.

  • Australia Day – Indigenous, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Mainstream

    The question raised in the leftie and elite classes is whether even the term \'Australia Day\' should be declared – to illustrate, indigenous groups call it Invasion Day, some Muslim hardliners only recognise their religious-politic days.

  • British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to jail for \'cooperation with BBC\' - family claims

    The family of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in Iran on undisclosed charges, said she has been accused by a Revolutionary Court of acting against national security by cooperating with the BBC.

  • Court verdict of three Christians detained in Khartoum postponed

    The verdict in the trial of three men detained for over a year in Khartoum – due today – has been postponed for another week – until 29 January.

  • Myanmar army officials confirm detainment of missing priests

    Burma (Myanmar) army officials have confirmed that they arrested two assistant priests missing since Dec. 24 and accused them of aiding ethnic separatists.

  • The next stop

    When Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher unexpectedly died of a heart attack aged sixty, her equally famous \'superstar-of-yesteryear\' mother Debbie Reynolds reportedly said to Carrie\'s friends and millions of fans worldwide, that their \"thoughts and prayers were guiding her to her next stop\".

  • Why aren\'t you worried?

    January is the perfect time of year for worrying. It\'s a fresh new year, full of hope and possibilities, including the possibility of all the things that might go wrong in 2017.