CHRISTIAN GROUPS WELCOME NEWS OF RELEASE OF 150 ASYLUM SEEKER CHILDREN FROM DETENTION
20th August, 2014 Christian groups have welcomed news that up to 150 asylum seeker children aged under 10 held in mainland residential detention will be released into the community. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday, 19th August, that the government would be releasing more than 1,500 children into the community with their families under […]
EBOLA OUTBREAK AFFECTS WORK OF MEDICAL SHIP CHARITY MERCY SHIPS
20th August, 2014 The work of Christian medical charity Mercy Ships is being significantly impact by the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa with a trip to Guinea cancelled and another to Benin delayed. In April, Mercy Ships cancelled a hospital ship’s planned deployment to Guinea where the Ebola outbreak began last December. […]
MUSLIM HERDSMEN IN NIGERIA KILL 18 CHRISTIANS IN PLATEAU, KADUNA STATES
20th August, 2014 The 14 people killed in an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen last week in Plateau state were Christians killed for their faith, not cattlemen slain for their livestock, area Christians said. In Yelwa, where Muslim Fulani cattlemen have largely replaced Christian ethnicities over the years by means of slash-and-shoot attacks, a throng […]
BOOKS: LIVING WITNESS – LOOKING AT ETHICS THROUGH A “MISSIONAL LENS”
DARREN CRONSHAW reviews Living Witness…
EGYPT: ONE YEAR AFTER HISTORIC ATTACKS, STATE HAS YET TO AID CHRISTIANS
Morning Star News reports on what’s happened – and hasn’t – in the year since what has been characterised as the “most widespread” outbreak of persecution against Christians in Egypt’s history…