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Friday, 29 June 2018 06:07
USA: Police hostility and wrongful deaths
A Georgia police officer’s body camera showed him striking a fleeing suspect with his patrol car. He first attempted to block the fleeing man by swerving onto the kerb, then steered back onto the road and…
Friday, 29 June 2018 06:06
Philippines: #LetThemLeave campaign for jailed missionaries
Tawanda is a Global Mission Fellow for ‘Peace Mindanao’ in the Philippines, working for human rights, peace education and conflict resolution. He is from Zimbabwe with a Bachelor of Social Science degree and a master’s degree…
Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:52
Globally: remember those in prison
Citizens are not usually incarcerated for their beliefs or peaceful activity in the West. Elsewhere Christian prisoners of conscience are threatened, not merely by criminals, but by an environment of unsanitary conditions, infectious diseases, untreated illness…
Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:50
Hawaii and Guatemala: volcanoes
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is in its 48th day, wreaking havoc with thousands of varying magnitude earthquakes and a lava flow destroying property on its way to the ocean. Guatemala’s Fuego volcano eruptions, which began on 3…
Thursday, 21 June 2018 23:47
Algeria: Christian persecution
Algerian Christians cannot openly practise their faith. 99% of the population are Muslim, and intolerance from Muslim relatives and neighbours is a major source of persecution. The state restricts freedom of religion through stringent laws and…
Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:30
Nigeria: Christians still being ambushed and killed
On 10 June Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians and seriously wounded another in central Nigeria. Ibrahim Weyi, 45, and Larry More, 53, were hacked to death when herdsmen ambushed them as they were going home…