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Europe refugee centres and child brides
05 Aug 2016
This week in Afghanistan a cleric in his 60s was arrested after marrying a six-year-old girl. Mohammad Karim claimed he married the child as a ‘religious offering,’ and her parents agreed. Elsewhere, in European asylum camps…
Germany: Weapons stolen from US military base
05 Aug 2016
Special agents from the US Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the theft of guns and other military equipment from an arms room in a Stuttgart base. The Army declined to say what kind of or…
Theresa May and David Cameron's honours list
05 Aug 2016
The ex-PM David Cameron's resignation honours list was leaked by a newspaper and has drawn much comment. The reality with honours lists is that there are names that will warm our hearts and names that will…
London City Mission – doorway into God’s kingdom
05 Aug 2016
Adam, a London City Mission (LCM) worker, writes, ‘Two of our workers run craft and Alpha groups for marginalised women, while others run energetic youth and kids’ clubs in our Forest Gate and Dagenham centres. We…
Police launched an internal inquiry after footage emerged of a young black man being pinned to the ground by a group of British Transport Police officers and having a spit hood placed over his head at…
Goddard inquiry truth project
05 Aug 2016
The Goddard inquiry was set up in 2015 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to gather evidence on historical institutional child abuse in Britain. The inquiry is asking victims who were abused and reported…