Faith or Folly?

April 2020 Pulse During the earlier period of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in South Korea, many of the infected were traced to a mysterious organisation which has hitherto been off the radar of the authorities, despite its huge following of 245,000. The full...

Faith and Pestilence

April 2020 Pulse On 31 December 2019, Wuhan, the largest metropolitan region in China’s Hubei province reported an outbreak of cases of people who have become ill with an inexplicable respiratory infection (‘pneumonia of unknown aetiology’). Sequencing reveals that...

A Christian View of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part 1)

Is this a Sign of the End of the World? As I write this, more than three billion (one-third of the world’s population) are living under lock down as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world, with more than 450,000 confirmed cases. Nearly 21,000 have...

Christian Courage

April 2020 Credo “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (Jn 16:33) February 2020 marked the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians by Daesh or ISIS in Libya. It is difficult to forget the...