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Friday, 18 December 2015 11:50
North Korea: life sentence for Canadian megachurch pastor
Earlier this year, Prayer Alert readers were asked to pray for Hyeon-Soo Lim, the leader of the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto. After hundreds of humanitarian trips, he was detained last January for ‘intending…
Friday, 18 December 2015 11:49
USA: churches welcome refugees against governors’ wishes
Over half of US state governors closed their state’s borders to Syrian refugees after the Paris terrorist attacks, but Christians are defying orders. Their faith tells them to open their doors to the stranger. In Georgia,…
Friday, 18 December 2015 11:48
Global: climate change summit reaches a deal
After days of nonstop negotiations in Paris, nations united around a final document that is effectively a blueprint for how the world will tackle global warming. Everything from greenhouse gas targets to finance has been discussed.…
Friday, 18 December 2015 11:47
Burundi: violence ignited and exploding
87 people were killed when violence broke out at three military sites in Burundi last Friday. Eight of the dead were security officers, and 49 people were captured. Residents who found a further 34 bodies in…
Friday, 18 December 2015 11:46
Israel: a typical day of violence
One day’s edition of the Times of Israel reported that a 39-year-old West Bank resident with ‘nationalistic’ motives attacked an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem with a hammer in two separate attacks.…
Friday, 11 December 2015 13:21
Global: social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators
Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in California’s mass shooting, is the latest in a growing number of extremists using social media to publicise their crimes. Facebook said she used an alias to praise IS online shortly…