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Friday, 28 July 2017 09:10
Canada: a call to prayer
Pray for Canadian young people to experience a true move of God, calling them to faith. Cry out for the new edition of Youth Alpha which will be launching this autumn; may the Lord use this…
Friday, 28 July 2017 09:07
USA: fewer are identifying with denominations
Americans have become less likely to identify with an official or formal religion in recent decades, and nowhere is this more evident than in the dwindling percentage who identify with a specific Protestant denomination. In 2000,…
Friday, 28 July 2017 09:04
Saudi Arabia: student sentenced to be beheaded
Mujtaba al-Sweikat, a Saudi Arabian young man, was accepted as a student at Western Michigan University, but is now facing imminent beheading in his home country for participation in pro-democracy protests. He was arrested and charged…
Friday, 28 July 2017 08:57
Iraq: ongoing power struggles
For centuries the social and political organisation of many Iraqis has centred on the tribe. Socially, tribes were divided into related sub-tribes, which further divided into clans, and then into extended families. Today 75% of Iraq’s…
Friday, 28 July 2017 08:47
Nicaragua: despite suffering, God is on the move
Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, civil wars, and oppressive dictatorships all play a part in the story of Nicaragua. This nation of only 6.3 million people is physically the largest of the Central American republics. As it…
Friday, 21 July 2017 09:38
Prime Minister backs faith schools
Christian education leaders have new hope after Prime Minister Theresa May promised that she would be an advocate for the establishment of new faith schools. During the last Prime Minister's Question Time before the summer recess,…