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Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:55
Global: reaching 130 million girls not at school
Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister, chairs the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), and is campaigning for the rights of girls to stay in education. Boris Johnson has called for every girl to be guaranteed twelve…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:52
Israel: Jewish-Arab partnership?
On 2 March Israel held its third election in a year. Already huge Likud roadside billboards bearing the faces of Blue and White and the Arab Joint List leaders have been erected, stating, ‘Yes to a…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:49
Burkina Faso: jihadis, vigilantes, demoralised troops, crisis
Violent extremists have spread across Burkina Faso. Traditional hunters and crime-fighting vigilantes have filled a governance vacuum and add a complexity to the crisis. A new group provides locals with weapons and two weeks’ training to…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:46
Tajikistan: fined for Bible translation
As well as targeting individuals for exercising their freedom of religion and belief, Tajikistan’s regime also targets Christian communities. For example, the Full Gospel Protestant Church's two buildings in northern Tajikistan have both been confiscated. One…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:34
Indigenous, tribal and animistic peoples
Local ethnic or folk religions have seen great losses to the larger religious movements. They were the dominant faith among 30% of the world in 1900, but only among 9% today. Yet traditional religion has not…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:28
Afghanistan: pray for change
Afghanistan’s population is 99.9% Muslim, containing 72 unreached people groups. There are 48,000 mosques and no churches. Any belief contrary to Islam is illegal. Converting from Islam to Christianity results in death. Christian believers gather and…