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Friday, 10 October 2014 01:00
Iran: Answered prayers, further arrests and hunger strike
In September believers from Muslim backgrounds were arrested. In October, Moluk Ruhani, Hamidreza Borhani and Zainab Akbari were released though Mohammad Taslimi and Parsa Dadkhah remain in Dastgerd prison. Sepideh Morshedi’s whereabouts is unknown. On 27…
Friday, 10 October 2014 01:00
West Africa: Companies fill gaps in Ebola response
Friday, 10 October 2014 01:00
Uzbekistan: Police raid Christian homes
It can be costly to own religious literature in Uzbekistan. On 5 September, Artur Alpayev was fined 50 times the minimum monthly wage for storing religious literature at his home. The literature was seized when his…
Friday, 10 October 2014 01:00
USA: 'Non-discrimination' Bill and Christians
Bishop James Johnston says Missouri State’s non-discrimination bill discriminates against people of faith and forcing believers to recognise same-sex relationships violates their religious freedoms and essentially makes Christians criminals. The leader in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic…
Saturday, 04 October 2014 01:00
INSIGHT: Middle East and terrorist cells
President Barack Obama admitted that U.S. intelligence underestimated the Islamic State's emergence in Syria and that breaking up the terrorist cell will be a complicated battle involving both military and political action. The president spoke about…
Saturday, 04 October 2014 01:00
Iraq: Baghdad frontline from Canon Andrew White
The following is a segment of the Bishop of Baghdad’s Facebook page entry for Sept.30th. ‘Thank you for your prayers, we seriously need them. The good news is - IS has been halted 5 miles from…