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France: Euro 2016
17 Jun 2016
Football fans are clashing with each other and the French police. People are being arrested, hospitalised, and some sent home after continued brawling in and around Marseille and Lille. Hundreds of French riot police have been…
Europe: answers to prayer
17 Jun 2016
There are positive and encouraging developments in the Church as evangelicals grow in strength, confidence and a sense of identity in most countries. This is demonstrated by the increase in an evangelical presence in mainline churches,…
USA: senators target gun laws
17 Jun 2016
Four Democratic senators are asking for more gun control legislation after an American born man with an assault rifle entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 and wounding 53. They want an immediate passage of…
South Africa: Jesus Dome gone but Jesus is alive
17 Jun 2016
Last Tuesday night the sky around the city of Durban was burnished with a bright orange blaze, seen from kilometres away. Vehicles stopped on a freeway to gaze at the consuming tongues of fire. As firemen…
Venezuela: food riots – people dying
17 Jun 2016
A man was shot dead on Tuesday during looting and food riots proliferating round crisis-hit Venezuela, bringing to at least four the number of fatalities from this month's wave of unrest. As well as the fatality,…
Egypt: Christian girls kidnapped
17 Jun 2016
A wave of kidnappings, forced conversions and forced marriages of young Christian girls in Egypt has Christian families living in fear. The missing girls were ‘probably taken to be forcefully married and converted to Islam.’ Among…