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Thursday, 10 August 2023 19:53
Australia: plans for World Prayer Assembly
Churches and prayer and mission ministries across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands have come together in unprecedented unity that has not been seen for decades, with the vision ‘A new wave of glory to…
Friday, 04 August 2023 06:00
Israel: Attacks on Christian communities
President Herzog acknowledged that ‘ultra-nationalist Jews attacking Christians is on the rise’. Attacks of stones, eggs and rotten fruit are regularly thrown into Jerusalem’s New Polish House. Aggressors broke into the sisters’ private property at nighttime,…
Friday, 04 August 2023 05:58
Kazakhstan: Points for prayer
Some say ‘to be a Kazakh is to be a Muslim’. Most Kazakhs follow a version of Islam influenced by shamans and indigenous practices. Other Muslim countries send Muslim missionaries to Kazakhstan, successfully converting even ethnic…
Friday, 04 August 2023 05:57
USA: Parents refused funds for religious schools
Six Jewish parents and two Jewish schools are suing the California Department of Education over their refusal to allow families whose children have special needs to use federal and state funds designated for such students to…
Friday, 04 August 2023 05:55
Sudan: Sinking deeper into civil war
The International Criminal Court has opened another war crimes probe after three months of war between feuding generals. 87 bodies were buried in a mass grave by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group prompting a…
Friday, 04 August 2023 05:53
Iran: Hijab enforcement tensions
The Iranian authorities are doubling down on policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying the return of the morality law which insists women and girls wear headscarves in public with police patrols enforcing…