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Monday, 23 March 2015 00:00
Syria: Four years since teenage graffiti sparked civil war
Four years ago this week a group of young teenagers with a can of paint sprayed messages on a wall in Daraa city. They couldn’t have known it but, over the next nine days, their graffiti…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
South Africa: Helping world’s traumatised children
Across the nations children are becoming traumatised through street violence, wars, domestic violence, kidnapping, child labour and trafficking. See the six Prayer Alert articles below. In South Africa the Petra Institute near White River, Mpumalanga, have…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Iraq: Israeli Arab slain by IS child
A new IS video shows a child executing an Israeli Arab man accused of spying for Israel. The child shot him in the head with a hand gun. ‘So we fight in Iraq and our eyes…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
Syria: A lost generation
Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases related to poor sanitation. With the breakdown of health systems there have been outbreaks of highly contagious diseases like measles and even polio. The lack of immunizations only…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
USA/Vietnam: Working to combat child labour
A majority of countries have adopted legislation to prohibit or place restrictions on the employment of children, much of it guided by standards adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). In spite of these efforts child…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00
China: Children kidnapped and sold
An illegal market in children has developed in China. Babies are being openly sold online. Police say many of the victims are from the estimated 20,000 children abducted each year - a crime with a devastating…