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Canada: Prayer Sunday
24 Jun 2016
26 June is this year’s Prayer Sunday, the date for Canadians to pray for their nation’s leaders. Join them in praying that the leaders will not be swayed from the Charter of Rights, which begins ‘Whereas…
Iraq: Fallujah refugees suffering
24 Jun 2016
Since Fallujah was all but liberated last Friday, people have escaped to four camps outside the city that were already brimming with thousands of families who fled when the fighting began in May. These makeshift camps…
Iran: increase in sex-trafficking
24 Jun 2016
Prostitution and sex-trafficking take place in Tehran, and the number of women working in the profession is growing. The government agency charged with overseeing morality is turning a blind eye to the issue, to avoid dealing…
Bangladesh: 2,000 Christians pray
24 Jun 2016
Christians and Hindus make up 10% of Bangladesh's population of mainly Sunni Muslims. On Monday 2,000 Bangladeshi Christians from various denominations prayed for ‘humanity to wake up’ to the growing threat of Islamic terrorism in the…
Nigeria: starving to death
24 Jun 2016
Doctors without Borders (MSF) said a ‘catastrophic humanitarian emergency’ is unfolding at a camp in Bama where 24,000 people have taken refuge from Boko Haram and nearly 200 have starved to death in the past month.…
USA:’no bill, no break’
24 Jun 2016
A week after the mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, senate Democrats demanded action on gun control; but the measures failed to pass the senate’s sixty-vote threshold. On Wednesday Democrats in Congress started a dramatic sit-in…