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Friday, 07 May 2021 09:31
India: politics, pandemic, pleading for oxygen
Hospitals rely on daily oxygen deliveries, but they are constantly sending desperate messages for extra supplies. A doctor described the situation: ‘Once you've emptied your main tank, there is nothing to fall back on’. Delhi is…
Friday, 07 May 2021 09:29
USA: pray for America
6 May is the National Day of Prayer in the USA. It comes at a complex time in American history, with political division, racial tension and violence, and a global pandemic and its devastating consequences. The…
Friday, 07 May 2021 09:27
Israel: state inquiry into Meron crush
45 people were crushed to death and over 150 sustained injuries in Israel’s deadliest civilian disaster when a stampede broke out at a densely-attended celebration. Search and rescue authorities struggled to evacuate trapped people after some…
Friday, 07 May 2021 09:25
Global: fourth week of Ramadan
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern and western India are some of the most dangerous places on earth to be a Christian. Over 325 million Muslims call this region home. If anyone chooses to follow Christ, they face…
Friday, 07 May 2021 09:23
Cook Islands: ‘rising sea levels threaten my home’
17-year-old Hereiti lives on the largest of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She says the ocean is the ‘lifeblood’ of her community, and that when it is ‘healthy’, the people are too. But…
Friday, 07 May 2021 09:19
Burkina Faso: more attacks generate more fear
The army in Burkina Faso needs to contain spreading violence by al-Qaeda and IS. More than thirty men, women, and children were killed by 100 rebels burning down homes and shooting people trying to escape. Survivors…