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USA: Ferguson, Missouri - 'This has to stop'
22 Aug 2014
On 9 August a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. Police and witnesses' accounts varied. The confusion fuelled protests by locals which invited outside agitators bring in gunplay and further violence. Community religious…
Iraq: Britain’s involvement
22 Aug 2014
On Monday Prime Minister David Cameron said, ‘This is not simply a humanitarian mission. We are determined to do what we can to help Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism.’ He spoke…
Dozens of journalists - many freelancers without news organisation backing - disappeared in 2012/13 in Syria. On Tuesday ISIS posted a video claiming to show kidnapped American journalist James Foley’s death. He was kidnapped in Syria…
Nigeria: Latest Islamist outrage
22 Aug 2014
Witnesses who fled the sandy fishing village of Doron Baga near the shores of Lake Chad said militants clothed in military and police uniforms loaded 97 men and boys on to trucks and drove them away,…
World: Natural disasters this week
22 Aug 2014
*Japan: After a month’s rain fell in 24 hours, more than 32 died in 10 landslides of mud and rocks buried homes in Hiroshima city outskirts. * Iran: Two Earthquakes. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Abdanan…
Iraq: Please pray
14 Aug 2014
The situation for Christians in Iraq has deteriorated badly. Sinjar, (Northwest of Mosul) is a city of mixed minorities; 30,000+ of these are scattered around and on the mountains. Telkeif, Batnai,Tel Esquff, (Bishops Hill) Bartella, Qara-quash,…