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Friday, 27 October 2017 10:28
USA: recent instances of corruption
In this fallen world people in positions of authority break laws. The following are corruption instances in a three week period. Four Baltimore police detectives distributed heroin. A congressional staffer organised fraudulent money laundering schemes. A…
Friday, 27 October 2017 10:25
Pakistan: policemen charged with murdering a Christian schoolboy
In a highly biased legal system where Christians are normally denied fair trials, the family of a Christian youth killed by police may actually receive justice. Six officers were charged with murder after they dragged Arslan…
Friday, 27 October 2017 10:22
Iraq: Christians ponder options after Kurdish independence vote
Iraqi Christians are divided over whether their areas in northern Iraq should be a part of Kurdistan, the Iraqi central government, or an entirely new autonomous area. The Chaldean Catholic patriarch, in an interview on 16…
Friday, 27 October 2017 10:18
First official sentenced in US FIFA scandal
Former Guatemalan football federation official Hector Trujillo, arrested in December 2015 in Florida, has become the first person to be sentenced in investigations into corruption in FIFA. He had accepted almost $200,000 in bribes from a…
Friday, 27 October 2017 10:12
Colombia: conflict over coca crops
Cultivation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine, is booming in Colombia. The government tries to slash production by employing hundreds of people and police officers to destroy crops, but armed gangs and drug traffickers oppose…
Friday, 27 October 2017 10:08
USA: child brides
The BBC’s America First series reported on Angel, who was 13 when her mother forced her to marry and start a family. ‘I felt like a slave,’ she says of her childhood. Zimbabwe, Malawi and El…