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Friday, 07 June 2019 05:35
East Asia Younger Leaders Gathering
220 younger leaders from China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong gathered from 25-28 March in South Korea, for the first-ever Lausanne East Asia Younger Leaders Gathering. Young leaders from every region of East…
Friday, 07 June 2019 05:30
Iraq: Displaced elderly Christians
Displacement by IS has inflicted trauma on Iraq’s Christians, particularly the elderly. Reconstruction goes on, but for elderly believers, displacement has placed them in a living coffin. Their relatives have fled the country and many are…
Friday, 07 June 2019 05:28
Australia: Water shortage crisis
Western and central New South Wales faces a water crisis within months unless it rains. The Murray-Darling basin in south-eastern Australia has two rivers (Murray and Darling) draining 1/7th of Australia’s land mass. They expect 10%…
Friday, 07 June 2019 05:23
Sudan: Bloody attack on protesters
Tens of thousands of protesters had camped outside Khartoum’s military headquarters since 6 April as protesters and military officials negotiated a transitional government. Protesters want ‘limited military involvement’ in civilian rule. The ruling generals refused to…
Friday, 07 June 2019 05:21
Global: Mercy Ships in partnership with UCB
Sadly, two out of every three people worldwide can’t get safe, affordable, timely surgery. Most of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa – people like mother and daughter, Valerie and Edith. Valerie lived with an enormous…
Friday, 07 June 2019 05:19
Iran: Outrage forces 'correction' of kindergarten directive
Images of a controversial administrative order went viral across Iranian social media in recent days, enraging large sections of the country's religious minorities and causing widespread public outrage. Iranian authorities had to revise the official order…