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Austria: Petition to leave the EU
17 Jul 2015
261,159 Austrians have signed a petition demanding a referendum on whether Austria should leave the EU. The number of signatories represents 4.12% of the electorate, and as it has had more than 100,000 signatures the question…
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination that observes Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, and accentuates the imminent second coming (advent) of Jesus Christ. For more than 40 years efforts…
Albania
17 Jul 2015
Albania is bracing itself for the risk that turmoil in Greece, its southern neighbour, will force tens of thousands of migrant Albanian workers to return home, cutting off remittances to hard-pressed families in one of post-communist…
A report has claimed that residents in Oregon are only now finding out that the state allows teenagers as young as 15 to get state-subsidised sex-change operations without parental notification. ‘It is trespassing on the hearts,…
Between 21 June and 1 July, four Christians were abducted in Baghdad. One was released following police intervention. Ransoms were paid for the others’ release. However, two were murdered even though ransoms had been paid and…
China: Police, politics and human rights
15 Jul 2015
There was widespread detention of human rights lawyers last weekend after more than 100 lawyers across the mainland issued a joint statement protesting against the disappearance of crusading lawyer Wang Yu. Mainland police detained lawyers and…