Lucinda Borkett-Jones

Are US Churches shifting their allegiance on Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

The United Church of Christ voted yesterday to divest from companies deemed to have profited from the occupation of Palestinian territories.
India: Pastor and church members beaten after 50 Hindu nationalists storm prayer meeting

A pastor and several church members were injured in an attack on a Christian prayer meeting in Kerala, southwest India by suspected Hindu nationalists earlier this month.
$How should we respond to the woman who\'s asking for $1 million to stop her abortion?$
How should we respond to the woman who's asking for $1 million to stop her abortion?

There's a website called prolifeantiwoman.com where an anonymous woman claims that she is seven weeks pregnant and planning to have an abortion, but is giving pro-lifers the chance to stop it â by donating $1 million in 72 hours.
What does it take to forgive the unforgiveable?

The relatives of the Charleston victims have offered Dylann Roof their forgiveness but we find ourselves wondering how that is even possible. Lucinda Borkett-Jones meets Christians who have forgiven their children's murderers.
$\'I prayed for him and I knew he\'d met God\'. Retired vicar\'s ministry to Calais migrants$
'I prayed for him and I knew he'd met God'. Retired vicar's ministry to Calais migrants

Last week scenes of migrants in Calais attempting to board trucks to the UK filled the news, with David Cameron saying that it was "totally unacceptable".
Tributes paid to Scottish Christian couple killed in Tunisia terrorist attack

A retired couple believed to have been killed in the terrorist attack at the Tunisian beach resort in Sousse were mourned by their church community in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire on Sunday.
$Why white US Christians are repenting for the Church\'s role in racism$
Why white US Christians are repenting for the Church's role in racism

The Church is reflecting on systemic issues that may be affecting race relations.
Ex-Muslim Rifqa Bary who fled her family after Christian conversion: 'I don't live in fear because every day belongs to God'

Rifqa Bary came to international attention in 2009 when, as a teenager, she ran away from her family home in Ohio fearing that her father wanted to kill her because she had converted from Islam to Christianity.
$Buddhists and Catholics travel to the Vatican to talk about the \'mystery of life\'$
Buddhists and Catholics travel to the Vatican to talk about the 'mystery of life'

Representatives from the Buddhist and Catholic communities in the US are holding an interreligious dialogue this week near Rome.
$Whoopi Goldberg fooled by fictional story about Pastor John Hagee\'s views on women using God\'s name during sex$
Whoopi Goldberg fooled by fictional story about Pastor John Hagee's views on women using God's name during sex

The panel show had a discussion about a fake story about Pastor John Hagee from a satire news site.
White supremacist who influenced Dylann Roof donated to 2016 Republican campaigns

The Republican candidates, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum, have said they will give campaign donations from a white supremacist to funds supporting the victims of the Charleston shooting.
$ISIS suspends boys from a pole in Syria for \'not fasting in Ramadan\'$
ISIS suspends boys from a pole in Syria for 'not fasting in Ramadan'

ISIS has punished two boys in Syria by hanging them from a pole for eating during Ramadan, the month when Muslim's fast during daylight hours.