Ravi Zacharias speaks at the ReFresh 2018 conference. (RZIM)
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Leading Christian scholars have signed a public letter calling on Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and its board to move forward with its investigation of the ministry s namesake with transparency and objectivity.
Philosopher William Lane Craig posted the letter on his Facebook page earlier this week, saying that the signators all respected Ravi Zacharias, and have been grieving the revelation that Zacharias was a sexual predator. As Christian philosophers and apologists who have respected Ravi Zacharias, we have been deeply troubled and grieved by Ravi’s documented sexual misconduct against women, the letter opens.
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Where Great Powers Meet, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power, which is intensifying across Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant region and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine the future of the entire Indo-Pacific regional order. Specifically, Dr. Shambaugh explores whether the region is becoming a new Chinese sphere of influence or whether the ASEAN states will be able to successfully hedge and maintain a multinational balance of power. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global power transition occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator of how it may play out elsewhere.
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Parul Haldar (R), 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip, her brother Nitai Mandal, 32, and her mother Lakshmi Mandal, 65, row a boat close to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) forest near the Satjelia island in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. According to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve s director, Tapas Das, five people have been killed by tigers in India s Sundarbans since April. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
SATJELIA, India (Reuters) - On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling brown river.
Indian Fishermen catch fish on a foggy morning on the Matla river in the Sundarban.
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Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 square km of tidal mangroves straddle India s northeastern coastline and western Bangladesh and open into the Bay of Bengal.
Four years ago, her husband disappeared on a fishing trip deep inside the forest. Two fishermen with him saw his body being dragged into the undergrowth - one of a rising number of humans killed by tigers as they venture into the wild.
That Haldar, a single mother of four, is taking such risks is testament to growing economic and ecological pressures on more than 14 million people living on the Indian and Bangladeshi sides of the low-lying Sundarbans.