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Global: fake news
02 Dec 2016
Marco Chacon read, ‘bucket of losers trending online’, and freaked out. It came from a story he had posted on his website about a ‘secret transcript’ of Hillary Clinton’s speech given to Goldman Sachs, which claimed…
Iraq: Under the shadow of IS
02 Dec 2016
In the ongoing instability in Iraq, Christians are not necessarily safe even if they escape areas held by IS. Esam (an Iraqi Christian) said that friends of his who escaped Mosul after being forcibly converted to…
Nigeria: update
02 Dec 2016
The UN has reported that 75,000 thousand children are at risk of dying of hunger and fourteen million people are in need of humanitarian aid in north-east Nigeria, as it deals with the aftermath of Boko…
India: Hindus
02 Dec 2016
Hinduism has roughly 1 billion followers, 94% in India. Hinduism is growing slowly, but is still winning followers from those searching for life’s answers in religion. There are approximately 140,000 Protestant missionaries across the nations, but…
EU facing a crisis? French candidates for 2017
02 Dec 2016
Far right Front National leader Marine Le Pen is a strong candidate for the French presidency, according to a recent poll. Her main opponent will be François Fillon, a former prime minister, who has won the…
EU facing a crisis? Italy’s Five Star Movement
02 Dec 2016
After thirteen years of a struggling economy and unemployment at 40% among the young, 107,000 youth have left to seek work abroad. The average family income is less than it was in 2007. On 5 December…