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GOVERNMENT MINISTERS URGED TO CURB TRAFFICKING THREAT TO UKRAINE REFUGEES
NEWLY DISCOVERED HEBREW TABLET COULD PROVE BIBLE IS OLDER THAN INITIALLY BELIEVED
Ministers in Westminster and the Scottish government are being warned of the trafficking risk to refugees coming to the UK from Ukraine. The new humanitarian route opened up by the government allows Ukrainian refugees to come to the UK for up to three years and be housed in the homes of Britons… Christian charity Care for Scotland has lauded the intention behind the scheme but also warned of the dangers in a letter to both governments in which it calls for a strategy to guard against exploitation by criminals. The proposed strategy should discourage Ukrainians from seeking help on social media where Care warns of ‘unregulated groups and accounts’. ‘Human traffickers can masquerade on sites as genuine individuals wanting to help when they intend to “shop” for new victims to exploit,’ the letter says. Over a thousand Ukrainians have so far applied to seek refuge in Scotland… Care is calling for follow-up checks to prevent refugees from ‘falling off the radar’. It also said that training should be given to those carrying out the checks so that they can spot the signs of exploitation, ‘which aren’t always obvious’.
A Hebrew tablet found in Israel could prove the Bible is much older than initially believed… Headed up by Dr Scott Stripling – director of the Archaeological Studies Institute at The Bible Seminary in Katy – the team discovered the small, folded tablet on Mount Ebal… It’s believed the [message on the tablet] was inscribed in 1,500BC, making it 200 years older than any other Hebrew text in existence, and 1,350 years older than the Dead Sea scrolls… Dr Stripling said… ‘One can no longer argue with a straight face that the biblical text was not written until the Persian period or the Hellenistic period.’
An online platform has been launched to help to take Sunday school digital. The website RaiseUPFaith.com has been produced by a team of children’s ministry leaders and teachers working ... with content creators for CBeebies and CBBC. The under-16 age group is the fastest declining demographic in the Church today. Yet … the Evangelical Alliance suggested that 24 per cent of churches had reduced or discontinued youth work during the pandemic, while 17 per cent had cut their children’s work… The pandemic has also accelerated the trend towards multimedia and online learning for children and young people, but there has, until now, been a shortage of appropriate resources for Sunday school learning.
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CHURCH ‘REACHING THE LIMIT’ ON WHAT IT CAN DO TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY, SAYS DR INGE The Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge, has criticised the government’s spring statement for not doing enough to alleviate pressures on the poor, and said that the Church was ‘reaching the limit’ as to what it could do to cover the shortfall… Dr Inge said that the Church had been ‘very active in seeking to alleviate poverty and everything associated with it since the crash of over 10 years ago’, but it needed more support from the government… ‘My fear is that we are reaching saturation point on what remedial measures civil society can realistically take’... Christians Against Poverty and the Children’s Society have been critical of what they regard as the government’s inadequate response to the cost-of-living crisis… Dr Inge suggested that churches and other organisations would … be under ‘huge pressure’ to ‘step up and provide additional support to help more people, through things such as food banks’. Church TImes
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