Society & Culture

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  After Paris Paralympics 2024, churches invited to participate in Disability Awareness Week from Sept 15-22

  By Chris Eyte Europe 2 months ago

  Following the excitement around the Paris Paralympics 2024, a charity encourages churches around the world to participate in Disability Awareness Week. From September 15 to 22, Through the Roof (TTR), which supports disabled people, is organizing informative events online with the theme of ‘Journey with Jesus’. 

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  But what do you really want—deep desires and necessary plans

  By Brian Harris Oceania

  2 months ago

  Are your desires and plans aligned? If so, what might it say about what you really want? How aligned is that yearning to God's will? If it is, there you will find your vocation. If it is not, that might be cause for repentance. Read on so you can figure it out before you die.

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  Women with disabilities pressured to choose assisted suicide in Canada, evangelical body warns

  By Chris Eyte US & Canada

  2 months ago

  The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has urged Canadian authorities to repeal euthanasia laws for mental illness, revealing a negative effect on women with disabilities, and to create a new anti-human trafficking strategy – in a nine-page submission to the United Nations (UN). The brief was written for the 89th session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It is part of a review of Canada’s con

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  Word and works witnessing with environmental acts

  By Svenja Akwaba Africa

  2 months ago

  Climate change and rapid biodiversity loss are threatening people, landscapes and all of creation in many parts of the world. Following the example of the Apostle Paul, we should take time to understand local values, traditions, and needs, including environmental concerns, to more effectively proclaim the goodness of God in Jesus Christ.