Friday, 04 December 2015 11:05
Brussels: Christians ‘the most persecuted’
In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are clearly the most persecuted group in…
Friday, 04 December 2015 11:04
Russia accuses Erdogan of buying oil from IS
Russia's deputy defence minister, Anatoly Antonov, has accused the family of Turkish President Erdogan of being directly involved in the trade of oil with IS. Mr. Antonov said Turkey was the biggest buyer of ‘stolen’ oil…
Friday, 27 November 2015 18:23
Climate Change Summit in Paris
The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Kyoto Protocol will take place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris. The preliminary list of speakers (139) includes all the leaders who have registered to…
Friday, 27 November 2015 18:23
MEPs strongly criticise Bahrain's human rights record
Following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report assessing the human rights situation in Bahrain, MEPs are calling for an urgent rethink of relations between the EU and the Gulf states. Ten detainees interviewed…
Friday, 20 November 2015 22:17
INSIGHTS into the various faces of IS
The organisation called Anonymous has ‘declared war’ on IS in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. They are leaking on to the internet the personal information of suspected extremists and have taken down thousands of…
Friday, 20 November 2015 22:17
France: Church, arise - and pray
Pope Francis condemned the Paris attacks. President Francois Hollande called them an ‘act of war’. We can join our brothers and sisters in France and pray for God's great mercy and compassion to be poured out…