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Thursday, 03 September 2020 20:31
USA: Trump unpopular with military
A poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members’ views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former vice president Joe Biden in the upcoming November election. The results, collected before…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:30
USA: Hurricane Laura
Powerful Hurricane Laura battered the Louisiana and Texas coastline, bringing unsurvivable storm surges up to 20 feet in Louisiana and Texas with 150 mph winds. Parts of Lake Charles will be underwater that no-one has seen…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:28
USA: disorder after police shoot unarmed black man
Wisconsin’s governor called in the National Guard to help quell unrest after police shot unarmed Jacob Blake in the back seven times at close range. The incident was videoed and went viral on the internet sparking…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:24
USA: how should Christians respond to racial unrest?
Dr Martin Luther King Jr said we must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. His niece Dr Alveda King said, ‘We're fighting over trying to reconcile separate races when we are only one…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:21
Uzbekistan: restrictions remain in new law
The draft religion law now in parliament would, in defiance of human rights, continue to ban all exercise of freedom of religion without state permission, banning teaching about religion without state permission, continuation of compulsory censorship…
Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:15
Mexico: Protestants risk losing essential services
Two Protestant families who were forced to sign an illegal agreement to renounce their right to hold religious services in order to have their access to essential services reinstated have now been told they risk being…