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Friday, 04 November 2022 04:05
India: Diwali festival crowds die as bridge collapsed
Gujarat suspension cable foot bridge had been closed for refurbishment. Then a week after it re-opened during Diwali celebrations it collapsed, throwing hundreds into the water. 135, mostly women, children and elderly, died. Army, Navy, Airforce,…
Friday, 04 November 2022 04:04
Pakistan: News from Barnabas Aid
‘With smiling faces they are praising God and giving thanks in their trials and sufferings,’ reported a mission worker, describing Christians in the area worst affected by devastating floods in August and September. He was helping…
Friday, 04 November 2022 04:01
Global: Governments change
Brazil’s Lula da Silva’s presidential election victory brings renewed hope for our largest rainforest as he pledged to combat climate change and reverse his predecessor’s policies. Pray for Lula to keep his pledges to protect the…
Friday, 04 November 2022 04:00
DRC: UN troops make ‘strategic withdrawal’
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has withdrawn troops from the eastern military base of Rumangabo, ceding ground in the battle against the M23 rebel group. M23 resumed fighting…
Friday, 04 November 2022 03:59
Ethiopia: Warring parties agree a ‘permanent cessation of hostilities’
The Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have agreed to permanently end hostilities, in a significant step toward ending the grinding war that has seen thousands killed, millions displaced, and millions more in…
Friday, 28 October 2022 12:20
Ethiopia: Pray for change
In Ethiopia’s first free and fair election last year, after decades of repressive rule, the Prosperity Party won. However, an opposition boycott and the war in the Tigray region that left many dead and two million…