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Friday, 26 September 2014 01:00
Japan: A mission field in waiting
Japan has many of the world’s largest companies, the world’s third largest economy, and educated and peaceful population and is the second largest un-reached people group in the world. 1.5 million young people (mostly men) have…
Friday, 26 September 2014 01:00
USA: National Prayer Assembly meet before mid-term elections
Elections in the United States are being held throughout 2014, with the general elections scheduled for 4 November. During this midterm election year 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats…
Friday, 26 September 2014 01:00
North Korea: People living on 250 grams of food per day
Due to drought and sanctions imposed on the Kim regime of North Korea because of the nuclear programme the population is at risk of acute malnutrition. In August the distribution of free food to citizens, which…
Friday, 26 September 2014 01:00
South Sudan: Four million face extreme hunger
Nearly four million people in Christian-majority South Sudan face dangerous levels of hunger after two years of violence, crop failure and disease. Acute malnutrition has doubled since last year. The UN predicted in May that half…
Friday, 26 September 2014 01:00
Yemen: Civil war threatens
In 2011, Yemen ended a 33-year dictatorship in the third successful revolution of the Arab Spring, but reconciliation did not follow revolution. Over the weekend, after a week long siege of the capital, rebels ousted Yemen’s…
Friday, 19 September 2014 01:00
Nigeria: IS gives advice to Boko Haram for an African Caliphate
When fighters last month took the town of Gwoza murdering inhabitants and raising its jihadist flags, a video was released declaring the area was ‘now part of the Islamic Caliphate and Gwoza has nothing to do…