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Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:24
USA: how should Christians respond to racial unrest?
Dr Martin Luther King Jr said we must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. His niece Dr Alveda King said, ‘We're fighting over trying to reconcile separate races when we are only one…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:21
Uzbekistan: restrictions remain in new law
The draft religion law now in parliament would, in defiance of human rights, continue to ban all exercise of freedom of religion without state permission, banning teaching about religion without state permission, continuation of compulsory censorship…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:15
Mexico: Protestants risk losing essential services
Two Protestant families who were forced to sign an illegal agreement to renounce their right to hold religious services in order to have their access to essential services reinstated have now been told they risk being…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:13
China: ‘brave new world’
The Chinese government is obtaining blood samples from up to 70 million – 10% of all men and boys – as the high-tech surveillance state builds a ‘DNA Skynet’ of the country’s 700 million males. Any…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:07
Iraq: assassinations in Basra
Dozens of activists have been killed in Iraq in recent years. In under a week, two have been assassinated and three narrowly survived murder attempts, as tensions between pro-Iran groups and a Western-leaning government claim new…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:01
USA: California fires update
Firefighters battling historic blazes in Northern California made progress towards getting the massive fires under control after temperatures cooled in the region. Lightning strikes, many of which sparked the fires, have decreased, and fire officials said…