Churches head calls for renewed struggle against anti-Semitism and intolerance in wake of Brussels shooting
The head of the World Council of Churches has condemned on attack on the Jewish Museum in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Saturday in which a gunman killed four people including two Israelis. Rev Dr OIav Fykse Tveit said the “brutal” attack on visitors to “a museum paying tribute to the Jewish people and […]
NIGERIAN MILITARY REPORTEDLY KNOWS WHERE KIDNAPPED SCHOOLGIRLS ARE BEING HELD
27th May, 2014 The Nigerian military reportedly says it knows where the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram are being held. The chief of defence staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, said on Monday that the military knows where the girls, who were kidnapped from their school in the village of Chibok seven weeks […]
ESSAY: ASIA BIBI – A LIFE HANGING IN THE BALANCE
In an article first published by ASSIST News Service, SHAHID KHAN, vice-chairperson of UK-based human writes organisation Global Minorities Alliance, writes of the plight of Asia Bibi and others declared to have transgressed Pakistan’s blasphemy laws…