North America

Easter in Greenland

13 Apr 2017
There are 3,300 Americans, 7,600 Danes and 44,000 Eskimos in Greenland. Although they profess to be a Christian country, the most important Greenland holiday is National Day followed by Arctic Palerfik (an April…

Syria: Chemical attack followed by USA retaliation

07 Apr 2017
Fifty-eight people have died and dozens have suffered in a chemical attack in Syria. Assad denied using any such weapons. Putin insisted Russia was not in the vicinity. Observers in Syria point the…

Middle East Christian refugees to have priority

07 Apr 2017
Finally, after years of apathy and inaction, Washington is extending its hand to help Christians in the Middle East. US president Donald Trump recently announced that persecuted Christians will have priority when it…

Canada / USA: climate change and fuel

07 Apr 2017
At a ‘creation care fair’ at St Cuthbert’s Church in Toronto, Anglicans and community members had opportunities to ask church and secular leaders how they were responding to the challenge of climate change,…

First-ever family-friendly talk show?

24 Mar 2017
At a time when Google, Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds are crowded with negativity, Frankly Faraci is an inspirational new Dove Channel show that can be found across the web on tablets, TVs, smart…

Canada: new blasphemy laws

17 Mar 2017
Motions against ‘Islamophobia’ are not legally binding but extremists are demanding them as laws. Shutting out any criticism against hardliner behaviour in the West actually means giving extremists a license to commit atrocities.…

USA: bakers refuse to make gay wedding cake

17 Mar 2017
A Christian couple in Oregon were fined $135,000 (£109,000) for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein, who own a local bakery called Sweet Cakes in…

USA losing its identity?

10 Mar 2017
A national poll has found that while there is deep disagreement between Republicans and Democrats over whether Christianity is central to American identity, a majority of the population (seven out of ten) agrees…

USA: anti-Semitic bomb threats

10 Mar 2017
All 100 members of the US Senate are asking for President Trump to provide help for the Jewish community, in the light of a number of bomb threats against Jewish community centres .…

USA: help for single women

03 Feb 2017
Among all homeless families in the USA, over three-quarters are headed by single women with children; about 30 percent of children in the foster care system would be discharged if their parents were…
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