Authorities vow solidarity over missing aircraft
20 May 2016
French and Egyptian authorities have been reacting to the disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804 with 66 people on board. The French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in Paris, ‘Obviously, we can only imagine the anguish of…
Germany: Christian refugees abused
13 May 2016
Open Doors workers in the country claim that believers, many of them Muslim converts, are sometimes a tiny minority and so are easy targets for insults, being punched, spat at and sexually assaulted. After surveying 231…
Rome: plot to attack Vatican and Israeli embassy
13 May 2016
Last Thursday Italian police thwarted an alleged plot by Moroccan nationals to attack the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome. Four people were arrested. Three men and three women, one an Italian, escaped to Iraq…
Helping migrant churches
06 May 2016
In a recent conference on the migrant situation, one refugee commented, ‘It’s not the ground we serve with the gospel, it’s the people.’ In Denmark there are now more than two hundred migrant churches, making up…
EU visa-free travel deal with Turkey
06 May 2016
EU governments and the European Parliament still have to approve it but, should they agree, Turkish citizens will be able to travel to all Schengen-zone countries . Freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial,…
German intercessors praying for UK
29 Apr 2016
Germany’s intercessors are taking an interest in the UK referendum. Their May prayer letter says, ‘Thank you for all your support in prayer for the European Union of Prayer meeting in The Hague in Holland in…