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Friday, 20 September 2019 09:59
Burkina Faso: Islam gains as churches close
When the Burkinabe people gained independence in 1960, the motto ‘Unity, progress, justice’ embodied hope for them. Currently almost eighty ethnic groups embrace religious practices: earth priests, fortune tellers, healers, witchcraft, and animal sacrifice. Recently the…
Friday, 20 September 2019 09:55
Afghanistan: crises
On 19 September 30+ civilians were killed and 40+ injured in an air attack that accidentally targeted farmers, and 20+ people were killed in a suicide car bomb that hit a hospital. 74 Afghans were killed…
Friday, 20 September 2019 09:52
Afghanistan, Iran: suffering but growing church
We praise God that hundreds of new Iranian and Afghan believers have been baptised in recent months in cities across the region. In Iran, these include teenagers who were deeply impacted recently by an Elam youth…
Friday, 20 September 2019 09:48
USA / Philippines: online sex offending
This month a US court sentenced Anthony Schultz to 84 years in prison for filming rape and sharing the abuse online. The case dated back to 2016, when he was arrested for multiple counts of child…
Friday, 20 September 2019 09:45
China: Ten Commandments replaced
A believer says the Chinese government doesn’t want Christians to know the Ten Commandments, which have been removed from nearly every state church and meeting venue and replaced with quotations from a 2015 speech by Xi…
Friday, 20 September 2019 09:39
Israel: Judaism’s place in politics
Religious Jewish parties won nearly 20% of the vote in the national election on 17 September. Previously, those parties have united with the conservative Likud party to form a governing coalition. But now the religious-nationalist bloc…