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Venezuela: public health emergency
20 May 2016
‘The death of a baby is our daily bread,’ said a Caracas surgeon, referring to Venezuela’s collapsing hospitals. The economic crisis has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold victims. The unravelling…
Pakistan: Muslim threats, and forced marriage
20 May 2016
In a Punjab village, 28-year-old Imran Masih has been accused of keeping a ‘blasphemous’ video clip on his cell phone. He is an illiterate man with no knowledge of the internet. Local Islamists have issued a…
In a week when the UK has hosted a conference around ending corruption in high places across the nations, International Justice Mission UK reports, ‘On 28 April 2016, over six years after the initial crime, a…
China frees imprisoned pastor
13 May 2016
Christians have been praying for protection and justice for Chinese Christians who have taken a stand against the government’s forced demolition of Christian crosses and churches. Last week the authorities released a pastor who had been…
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…