Articles
Burundi: It's enough to make you cry
04 Jun 2015
The following is from a missionary working in Burundi: ‘I'm sitting in a café having a snatched lunch alone, and I'm crying. Our teams on the frontline urgently need more resources to help save lives. The…
Afghanistan: News from a missionary
04 Jun 2015
‘Daily we receive reports of more atrocities, higher death tolls, repeated attacks on NGOs and guest-houses with foreigners as victims. Pray that this spring offensive may soon come to an end and that the whole Taliban…
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a Syrian Christian fighter from the Syriac Military Council beheaded a militant of Islamic State in northwest Syria as revenge for the terror group’s violence against the…
Yemen: Humanitarian crisis and ethnic cleansing
04 Jun 2015
Thousands of tonnes of food aid for Yemen have been diverted from the port of Aden because of heavy fighting between Saudi-backed forces and Shia Muslim Houthi fighters. The city has been cut off from supplies…
USA: Foreign aid bill for Armenia
04 Jun 2015
Questions of aid for Armenia will be among a broad range of US assistance issues addressed by members of the House as they start drafting the foreign aid bill for fiscal year 2016. As in the…
EU leaders at eastern summit meeting
28 May 2015
This week EU leaders convened in Riga for the eastern partnership summit. They met with officials from the six eastern partners. Latvian foreign affairs minister Edgars Rinkevics hoped it would be ‘an opportunity to look at…