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Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:55
Afghanistan: battles still raging
Defence minister Tariq Shah Bahrami has said that battles are ongoing in at least ten provinces. He added, 'To be honest, the level of threat is very high and the current facilities available to security and…
Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:53
Central African Republic: Christian mission massacre
More than forty people were killed in a militia attack on a Christian mission in Alindao, around 180 miles east of CAR’s capital Bangui, on 15 November. The attackers torched a church and forced 20,000 displaced…
Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:49
Myanmar: refugee status lost
At least 28,000 ethnic Chin (mainly Christian) refugees in Malaysia and India have lost their refugee status and are faced with returning to Buddhist-majority Myanmar (Burma), where they risk discrimination and military attack. The status change…
Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:46
Yemen: 85,000 children have starved to death
Save the Children (SCF), using UN data, have found that huge numbers of children under 5 perished from severe hunger. Some 84,701 children may have died between April 2015 and October 2018 because of a lack…
Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:03
Guatemala: thousands flee as volcano erupts
Almost 4,000 people have been evacuated from the slopes of the Fuego volcano after it began erupting on 18 November, with ash and lava spewing from its crater. This comes five months after almost 200 people…
Friday, 16 November 2018 00:25
Egypt: seven Christians killed in bus shooting
A terrorist attack on three buses carrying Egyptian Christians left at least seven dead and 19 injured on 2 November. The buses were travelling to a well-known Christian historical site near Minya. Six of the seven…