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Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:39
Syria: Forty tons of aid from Iran
On the first anniversary of anti-government uprisings in Syria (March 15th) forty tons of Iranian aid supplies arrived in Damascus. The shipment is the first of four planeloads that Iran plans to send to its most…
Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:38
North Sudan: Over half a million Christians forced to Leave
A massive persecution of Christians by an Islamic government is under way in Sudan, and an estimated 700,000 Sudanese, most of them Christian, must leave the country for South Sudan by April under a law passed…
Friday, 16 March 2012 08:27
Syria accused of planting landmines near border
In November Prayer Alert reported ‘The use of landmines in 2011 has been the highest for seven years in the Middle East’, so it is not surprising that Human Rights Watch has documented multiple accounts from…
Friday, 16 March 2012 08:26
Nigeria: Eleven dead after suicide attack on church
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a St Finbar’s Catholic Church in Jos as worshippers were filing out after Sunday mass. Seven worshipers were killed and panic followed causing security guards to shoot and kill…
Friday, 16 March 2012 08:25
Israel: Despite cease-fire Israeli's hit Gaza after rocket in Netivot
The Israel Air Force (IAF) struck two targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday, in response to Palestinian terrorists' violation of an informal cease-fire agreement. A fragile hours-long calm came after four days of violence with…
Friday, 16 March 2012 08:24
Pakistan: Woman charged with ‘blasphemy’ for refusing Islam
A young mother has been falsely accused of blaspheming Muhammad because she rebuffed attempts by relatives, who had converted to Islam, to force her to renounce her Christian faith. Speaking ill of Muhammad is punishable by…