Articles
Friday, 22 August 2014 01:00
USA: Ferguson, Missouri - 'This has to stop'
On 9 August a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. Police and witnesses' accounts varied. The confusion fuelled protests by locals which invited outside agitators bring in gunplay and further violence. Community religious…
Friday, 22 August 2014 01:00
Iraq: Britain’s involvement
On Monday Prime Minister David Cameron said, ‘This is not simply a humanitarian mission. We are determined to do what we can to help Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism.’ He spoke…
Friday, 22 August 2014 01:00
Syria: ISIS kill kidnapped journalist James Foley
Dozens of journalists - many freelancers without news organisation backing - disappeared in 2012/13 in Syria. On Tuesday ISIS posted a video claiming to show kidnapped American journalist James Foley’s death. He was kidnapped in Syria…
Friday, 22 August 2014 01:00
Nigeria: Latest Islamist outrage
Witnesses who fled the sandy fishing village of Doron Baga near the shores of Lake Chad said militants clothed in military and police uniforms loaded 97 men and boys on to trucks and drove them away,…
Friday, 22 August 2014 01:00
World: Natural disasters this week
*Japan: After a month’s rain fell in 24 hours, more than 32 died in 10 landslides of mud and rocks buried homes in Hiroshima city outskirts. * Iran: Two Earthquakes. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Abdanan…
Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:00
Christian asylum seekers mobbed by Muslim asylum seekers
August 2014: Christians seeking asylum in Germany are reported to suffer anti-Christian attacks in homes for asylum seekers. Victims claim to have been verbally abused and beaten by Muslim asylum seekers. Syrian Christian Toni said: ‘It…