British Isles
Friday, 08 February 2019 00:26
Fracking: larger earthquakes?
Fracking company Cuadrilla has requested an urgent review of existing earthquake safety levels, hoping that the permission to generate larger tremors will allow them to extract greater quantities of shale gas from Lancashire. Currently they must…
Friday, 08 February 2019 00:24
Solving a border problem?
We hear doomsday predictions for what life after Brexit could look like. Pray for God to replace fear and confusion with appropriate preparations for the March deadline. Currently people must show their passports when crossing into…
Friday, 08 February 2019 00:20
619 new Bible translation projects in 2019
Wycliffe Associates is advancing Bible translation and has received requests to launch 619 translation projects worldwide, including groups in DRC, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Nigeria. ‘When they hear that the entire New Testament can now…
Friday, 08 February 2019 00:17
MPs to take action on missing clinical trial results
The Science and Technology Committee has decided to monitor reporting of clinical trials by universities, and will question those that don’t improve. Clinical trials are the best way to test whether a medicine is safe and…
Friday, 01 February 2019 09:49
Brexit: May goes back to Brussels but EU says nothing has changed
Theresa May was handed a two-week deadline to resuscitate her Brexit deal last night and pledged to go back to Brussels to demand changes to the Irish backstop, with only 59 days to go until exit…
Friday, 01 February 2019 09:46
UK churches threatened
In the past two months fifteen UK churches have been sent anonymous threatening letters telling them to stop services or be attacked. The letters were handwritten, threatening petrol bomb attacks and mass stabbings. ‘Stop all your…