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Friday, 08 July 2016 09:41
Dhaka café attack ends with 28 dead
Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina announced two days of national mourning after an attack on a café in Dhaka left 28 people dead - twenty hostages, six militants and two police officers. In a televised address…
Friday, 01 July 2016 08:38
Ukraine: historic national day of prayer
For the first time in Ukraine’s history, all the churches of the country came together for a National Day of Prayer for their nation in Kiev. It was attended by thousands and broadcast ‘live’ by three…
Friday, 01 July 2016 08:36
Lebanon: suicide bombers attack Christian village
Eight suicide bombers attacked a Lebanese Christian village in the latest violent spillover of the Syrian war into Lebanon. Security sources believe IS was responsible for the bombings in Qaa village, on Lebanon’s border with Syria.…
Friday, 01 July 2016 07:40
USA: Trump a 'baby Christian'?
One of America's leading evangelicals, James Dobson, claims to know the person who ‘fairly recently’ led presidential candidate Donald Trump to accept a relationship with Jesus Christ. This week Dobson called Trump a ‘baby Christian’ and…
Friday, 01 July 2016 07:38
Turkey: airport suicide bombings
On Wednesday, Europe’s third busiest airport, Ataturk, was attacked by three suicide bombers, leaving 41 dead and 239 wounded. They were in the arrivals hall when Turkish security officials stopped them. When they began shooting AK-47…
Friday, 01 July 2016 07:35
Iran: Christian back in prison after treatment
On 4 December we highlighted the plight of Maryam Naghash Zargaran, a Christian believer from a Muslim background who had been in Evin prison for three years and urgently needed medical treatment which the prosecutor refused…