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Saturday, 28 May 2011 09:04
Nortth Korea: Food shortage?
A US/South Korean fact-finding team will visit North Korea on Tuesday to conduct an eight day investigation into people starving in remote regions. They hope to assess the amount of food necessary to relieve thousands of…
Friday, 20 May 2011 09:51
Qatar: Faith communities grow through service of Anglican centre
In a section of Doha, in an expanding development that has come to be known as Church City, thousands of Christian migrant workers worship freely with the blessing of the Qatari authorities. Christianity in this Islamic…
Friday, 20 May 2011 09:49
Japan: Workers at reactor & Greenpeace warning
Workers briefly entered Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant measuring radiation levels and checking damage as they attempt to bring the reactors to a stable, cold shutdown by January. It was the first time anyone had entered…
Friday, 20 May 2011 09:48
Syria: Tanks shelling Tel Kelakh
Tanks have been bombarding border town Tel Kelakh since Saturday as they crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad following Sundays demonstrations demanding ‘the overthrow of the regime’ - the slogan of revolutions that toppled other Arab…
Friday, 20 May 2011 09:47
Iraq: Christian man held to ransom then killed
Ashur Issa Yaqub, a 29-year-old Chaldean Christian construction worker was abducted by gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk, held to ransom over the weekend for $100,000, but then his body was found Tuesday in Kirkuk…
Friday, 20 May 2011 09:44
Egypt: Rising violence against Christians
A group of experts, advocates and faith leaders with an interest in Egypt, religious freedom and human rights released a statement expressing concern at the increasing attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, and the manner in…