Worldwide
Thursday, 22 August 2019 22:32
USA: Hollywood Christians
Hollywood might seem like a spiritual wasteland, but faith is not absent from Tinseltown. Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington lends his voice to ‘The Bible Experience,’ an audio Bible featuring top African-American stars. Tyler Perry, Hollywood's…
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:18
Australia: Christian youth survey
Mission Australia is a Christian charity supporting disadvantaged families and children, fighting homelessness and issues around mental health and addiction. They have invited young people aged 15-19 to participate in a wide-ranging national survey. Last year’s…
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:14
Syria: car bombing, stoning, rape and torture
In July at least eight people were injured outside a church by an IS car bomb, in an area held by the Kurdish YPG militia. On the same day in Afrin, on the border with Turkey,…
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:09
Zimbabwe: governance crisis and church aid
Far from seeing reform after Robert Mugabe was toppled, the country has fallen into deeper crisis as millions are ‘reduced to paupers’. Power cuts from dawn to long after dusk are causing families to cook on…
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:04
Hong Kong: one country two systems?
Please pray for resolution between Hong Kong's pro-democracy people and China’s government. After police firing as many rounds of tear gas in one day as during the entire months of June and July, a general strike,…
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:01
Algeria: churches being closed
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has called on Algerian authorities to guarantee freedom of worship to churches and religious institutions, and to allow all closed churches to re-open. A press release on 12 August states, ‘We…