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Thursday, 07 May 2020 22:13
Israel: God TV threatened
Israel is threatening to shut down a Hebrew-language evangelical channel aiming ‘to take the gospel of Jesus into 700,000 Jewish households’. Under its newly issued license, Shelanu TV, an arm of God TV, is now prohibited…
Thursday, 07 May 2020 22:10
Yemen: coronavirus and renewed calls for truce
At a time when Yemen is scrambling to respond to coronavirus and ensure that hospitals can treat the patients, the country has entered the sixth year of a war that has all but decimated its healthcare…
Thursday, 07 May 2020 22:06
Global: internally displaced persons
There are 9.5 million more internally displaced persons (IDPs) than last year. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) works alongside refugees who have historically fallen through the cracks of support and been ignored by their own governments.…
Thursday, 07 May 2020 22:03
Bangladesh: coronavirus in Cox’s Bazaar
Cox’s Bazaar is the largest refugee settlement on earth. One million Rohingya refugees, half of whom are children, have been cramped together in these camps since 2017, after they were forced to flee their homes in…
Thursday, 07 May 2020 22:01
Kenya: police abuse of power
In many places, police not only fail to protect people in poverty from violence, but they are violent predators themselves. Millions of the most vulnerable people in the world live in fear of police who extort…
Thursday, 07 May 2020 21:57
Gaza: an economic boost
Manufacturing clothes was once a pillar of Gaza’s economy, with 900 factories employing 36,000 Palestinians. But the industry collapsed in 2007 when Hamas seized control of Gaza and Israel banned the export of clothing from Gaza…