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Thursday, 19 March 2020 23:27
India: police implicated in Hindu riots
As the Hindu mob descended, Delhi market stalls were reduced to ashes, just 100 metres away from two police stations. The mobs came three times; desperate stallholders repeatedly ran to the police stations crying out for…
Thursday, 19 March 2020 23:24
China: what can we learn from the Chinese Church?
Pastor Huang Lei leads a church in Wuhan. The coronavirus crisis makes it impossible for his church to have their usual gatherings, so they are meeting online. They are not just doing church, but being church.…
Thursday, 19 March 2020 23:22
USA: send asylum seekers to Mexico or Canada
Officials in Donald Trump‘s administration have been briefed on plans to block all asylum seekers and foreigners from entering the USA as a response to the coronavirus epidemic. All persons on the border with Mexico, apart…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:58
Prayer for deliverance from coronavirus
‘Jehovah Shalom, Lord of Peace, we remember those living in coronavirus hotspots and those currently in isolation. May they know Your presence, Your peace in their turmoil and your patience in their waiting. God of Comfort…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:55
Global: reaching 130 million girls not at school
Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister, chairs the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), and is campaigning for the rights of girls to stay in education. Boris Johnson has called for every girl to be guaranteed twelve…
Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:52
Israel: Jewish-Arab partnership?
On 2 March Israel held its third election in a year. Already huge Likud roadside billboards bearing the faces of Blue and White and the Arab Joint List leaders have been erected, stating, ‘Yes to a…