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Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:19
Nigeria: struggles
Bullets fly overhead as schoolboys scream out in fear. Chaos. Shrapnel. Hundreds go missing. This was the scene last week when Boko Haram militants stormed a high-school in Katsina, northern Nigeria, to abduct hundreds of students,…
Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:16
USA: Christian campaigner faces death threats
Bob Fu, who lives in Texas, is a former Tiananmen Square protester who now runs ChinaAid and campaigns for religious freedom in China. He has been targeted with death threats and his family were traumatised by…
Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:13
Global: mission gap
Matthew Skirton is from the UK but has spent many years in Moldova. He says that mission agencies have noticed a decline in Christians engaging in cross-cultural, overseas mission. Less than 1% of Christians around the…
Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:08
Egypt: Christians persecuted
Christians in Egypt are not safe, despite the authorities’ claims to the contrary. The following tragedy shows the dangers Christians must navigate in Egyptian society, and their disbelief that help will come in the form of…
Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:03
Global: vaccination challenges for developing countries
Wealthy countries should be well-covered with vaccines by the first half of 2021, but low-income countries will still be waiting. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said that vaccine access is a huge challenge for low- and middle-income…
Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:00
USA: ‘excommunicate Christians who marry non-believers’
Pastor and author John Piper has said, ‘Those who choose to marry non-believers are acting in open defiance of the teaching of the apostles and of God’. Piper is known for strict Calvinist theology. He said…