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Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:32
India: Christian wives wait for justice
Ten years ago, three illiterate Christians from a remote area in Odisha state were arrested. Two months later four other Christians were arrested. They are all still in jail charged with the 2008 murder of a…
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:29
Nigeria: action needed
Reconciliation seems far away between Christian farmers and Muslim herdsmen in Nigeria’s middle belt areas. Christians fled to Plateau and Benue states because of discrimination and attacks from Boko Haram in the north,but now they are…
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:09
Global: severe weather on 11 October
In eastern India a 140-165 km/hr cyclone called Titli ravaged Odisha. All buildings were closed, 300,000 people were evacuated, and 1,112 relief camps opened for evacuees from five coastal districts. 123 pregnant women were moved to…
Thursday, 11 October 2018 23:06
USA: who is Brett Kavanaugh?
Brett Kavanaugh replaces Justice Kennedy as a US Supreme Court judge, and is expected to keep the position for decades. He was one of the lead writers of the report that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment,…
Friday, 05 October 2018 01:35
Indonesia: earthquake,tsunami, volcano eruption
Air traffic controller Anthonius Agung died after waving out the last flight from Palu airport on 28 September (see). He was one of the first casualties of a disaster that has taken at least 1,407 lives,…
Friday, 05 October 2018 01:32
Indonesia: Christian agencies join forces
Four leading Christian humanitarian organisations are joining forces in a fundraising campaign to try and help survivors of the Indonesia earthquake and tsunami, as authorities fear the number of fatalities, casualties and people displaced will rise…