AUTHORITIES IN CHINA REMOVE CHURCH CROSSES IN CRACKDOWN, SAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
29th August, 2014 Chinese security forces violently removed two more church crosses in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, injuring five senior church members, as part of a wider crackdown in the region, rights activists say. More than 200 church crosses are now known to have been forcibly removed by the provincial government since early […]
CALL FOR AUSTRALIA TO INCREASE HUMANITARIAN AID FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES, NOW NUMBERING MORE THAN THREE MILLION
29th August, 2014 Australia should step up its efforts to assist refugees and others facing the "horrors of war" in Syria, according to humanitarian aid agency Oxfam. The organisation issued the call as the number of Syrian refugees registered with the UNHCR passed three million in what is the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan […]
WATER WORKS: HOW GOING FOR A WALK IN AUSTRALIA CAN BRING NEW HOPE TO VILLAGES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
29th August, 2014 DAVID ADAMS For people in many communities in northern Nigeria, having a glass of water doesn”t simply mean turning on a tap. It can mean walking an average of some eight kilometres a day, just to provide the family with enough to keep them going. Every day. Now in its sixth year, […]