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Friday, 31 May 2019 07:08
Japan: Mediator for USA/Iran, USA/North Korea
During Donald Trump’s state visit to Japan he told Emperor Naruhito that he would support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to act as a mediator between the US and Iran. Abe will visit Tehran next month…
Friday, 31 May 2019 07:05
Syria: Another wave of conflict
Over 40 civilians killed on 28 May were the latest casualties from barrel bomb bombardments in northwest Syria that have damaged schools and hospitals. Families are dying from government fire on towns in Idlib and the…
Friday, 31 May 2019 07:03
Australia: Religious freedom
The Australian Christian Lobby is raising the profile of the need to protect religious freedom. They are stating that for some time now, the threat to religious freedom in Australia has not been merely a threat,…
Friday, 31 May 2019 07:00
Israel: New election on 17 September
Former defence minister Avigdor Liberman whose party draws support from Israel’s largely secular Russian immigrant community, refused to join the government unless a military draft bill, crafted in the last Knesset, would be passed unaltered. The…
Friday, 31 May 2019 06:57
Japan: Catholic school pupils attacked
A man screaming ‘I will kill you’ and carrying a knife in each hand attacked Catholic schoolgirls waiting at a bus stop in Kawasaki, slaughtering two and wounding 16 others. He then stabbed himself in the…
Friday, 31 May 2019 06:54
Pakistan: Christian brick-kiln workers
Over the years Prayer-Alert has highlighted the plight of Brick-Kiln Workers; but it still goes on. Amanat worked seven days a week in a brick-kiln making 1,000 bricks daily, earning the equivalent of £4.20 that he…