Friday, 11 March 2016 10:49
Germany: a split of opinion
A German intercessor says: ‘Germany is divided into those for and those against taking in refugees. Ideological condemnation is common between ‘blue-eyed do-gooders’ and ‘small-minded backwoods people’. Hatred flares, violence spreads, and our citizens are committing…
Friday, 04 March 2016 13:15
Germany: refugees have no voice
‘Christians and Muslim converts to Christianity have no voice’, says Pastor Gottfried Martens, whose church in Berlin is a ‘drop-in-centre’ for more than 1,000 Christian refugees. ‘In the refugee homes many Christians live in fear of…
Friday, 04 March 2016 13:11
Europe: summits on refugee crisis
Europe’s migration crisis is hurtling towards a potentially defining turning point this month, with the pillars of the EU’s policy under sustained assault and German chancellor Angela Merkel facing the first electoral test of her refugee…
Friday, 26 February 2016 11:03
France: anti-Semitic terror
‘I had to cover my kippah with a cap to be safe in public,’ said Lev, a young Jew from Paris, ‘and I worried that someone would kill my daughter at her school.’ Lev’s family are…
Friday, 26 February 2016 11:01
Europe 'shameful' over refugees, terror response
European countries' shameful response to the migrant crisis and their counter-terrorism policies risk undermining their historic commitment to human rights, Amnesty International warned on Wednesday. They used their annual report to take some of the world's…
Friday, 19 February 2016 13:02
Germany: Freedom to speak
Intercessors in Germany write, ‘Since the Paris massacre, Istanbul attack and assaults in Cologne, feelings of unease and fear have intensified. Also, we now know that certain information was purposely withheld by official sources to avoid…