Articles
The lawless EU?
02 Sep 2016
Europe's Competition Directorate dispatches corporate raids across Europe without a search warrant, and operates outside normal democratic judicial control. It is judge, jury, and executioner, imposing fines large enough to constitute criminal sanctions, but without the…
Africa: property-grabbing
02 Sep 2016
The following is just one of the many stories of property-grabbing, injustice and false imprisonment of poor, vulnerable people. A mission worker writes, ‘Please join us in praying for Albertina, an 82-year-old widow who has been…
Colombia : peace agreement after fifty years
02 Sep 2016
Colombia declared an end to the longest-running civil conflict in the Western hemisphere last week. In a historic agreement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - known as FARC - signed a peace agreement with the…
Libya: thousands of migrants rescued
02 Sep 2016
On Monday, 6,500 migrants were rescued from the sea twelve miles off Libya in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date. Migrants from Eritrea and Somalia were cheering and some were swimming to…
Vietnam: protesters beaten by police
02 Sep 2016
4,000 Catholics were beaten by police as they protested against the government allowing the contamination of seventy tons of fish from waste dumped into the sea. The pollution was caused by Formosa Plastic Group, a steel…
MAF: flying for life
02 Sep 2016
For seventy years the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has helped vulnerable people in hard-to-reach places. Flying onto desert and jungle airstrips, lakes and rivers, tracks and roads, its light aircraft and their mission pilots go the…