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Thursday, 05 September 2019 21:36
Cameroon: Bible translator killed
Bible translator Angus Abraham Fung, working with the Aghem Bible translation project in Cameroon, was among seven people said to have been killed in an overnight attack. His wife’s arm was cut off, according to a…
Thursday, 05 September 2019 21:32
South Africa: agitation and frustration
Cyril Ramaphosa won the May elections on a reformist ticket against ANC’s corrupt old guard. Now he is dealing with a corruption row over land reform in the countryside and xenophobia in the towns. When he…
Thursday, 05 September 2019 21:27
DR Congo: militants kidnap 200+, loot hospital
Over 200 people including women and children were abducted and a church mission hospital and shops were looted when Islamist extremists raided the town of Boga, in this majority-Christian country. Bishop William Bahemuka said the Muslim…
Friday, 30 August 2019 09:47
Hong Kong: democracy cry and Beijing’s threat
In 1989, the longest human chain in history (675 kilometres) was formed from north Estonia across Latvia to south Lithuania, as a moral protest against the illegal occupation of those lands by the Soviet Union. Thirty…
Friday, 30 August 2019 09:44
Uganda: Christian persecution
Charity struggled with depression after her husband became a Muslim, abandoned her, and threatened to take their three children. ‘I just couldn’t let my children become Muslims, but I trusted the Lord to help us through…
Friday, 30 August 2019 09:42
Iraq: who is behind attacks?
Recently there have been four attacks on weapons storage facilities belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) militia. Some factions of the PMU are believed to be Iran proxies, which might explain why there have been…