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Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Massive rise in church volunteering
Volunteering through UK churches has increased by nearly 17% over the past two years, according to the third biennial National Church and Social Action Survey. Figures indicate that 1.1 to 1.4 million volunteers participated in church-based…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Immigration stories horrify parliamentary group
A new parliamentary inquiry has called for a 28-day cap on the time that anyone can be held in immigration detention in the UK, to end the indefinite detention of migrants and asylum-seekers. The All Party…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
South Africa: Helping world’s traumatised children
Across the nations children are becoming traumatised through street violence, wars, domestic violence, kidnapping, child labour and trafficking. See the six Prayer Alert articles below. In South Africa the Petra Institute near White River, Mpumalanga, have…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Iraq: Israeli Arab slain by IS child
A new IS video shows a child executing an Israeli Arab man accused of spying for Israel. The child shot him in the head with a hand gun. ‘So we fight in Iraq and our eyes…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Syria: A lost generation
Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases related to poor sanitation. With the breakdown of health systems there have been outbreaks of highly contagious diseases like measles and even polio. The lack of immunizations only…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
USA/Vietnam: Working to combat child labour
A majority of countries have adopted legislation to prohibit or place restrictions on the employment of children, much of it guided by standards adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). In spite of these efforts child…