British Isles
Thursday, 09 April 2020 21:26
Domestic abuse calls up 25% since lockdown
The National Domestic Abuse helpline has seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests for help since the lockdown. The charity warned that the lockdown heightened domestic tensions and cut off escape routes like the…
Thursday, 09 April 2020 21:23
Pray for children
Psalm 127:3 states, ‘Children are a gift from God’. In the Name of Jesus, we pray for children to be safe and secure, loved, enjoyed, and protected, and that everything God has put within them of…
Thursday, 09 April 2020 21:20
Border Force intercepts migrants
So far this year almost 500 migrants have been intercepted while crossing the Dover Straits, from coronavirus-infected Calais camps. On 8 April four boats carrying 57 migrants (23 of them Iranian) were intercepted by the Border…
Thursday, 02 April 2020 23:33
£16.5 million donation to fight coronavirus
Billionaire Hans Rausing is donating £16.5 million towards supporting NHS staff and volunteers. £5 million will pay for packs of food and necessities to be distributed to the isolated vulnerable and the cost of travel, parking,…
Thursday, 02 April 2020 23:29
Feed the nation
Coronavirus restrictions affected farmers who supply the likes of McDonalds. Half of farmers’ orders came from out-of-home eating and three meals per week per person need to shift from outside to inside the home through retail.…
Thursday, 02 April 2020 23:26
Hope for the countryside
The crisis has prompted rural communities to link up as never before via social media and offers of help to those in self-isolation. Christians are reaching out to and praying for their neighbours. Pray that, despite…