BAIL GRANTED TO PASTORS NEARLY MOBBED FOR SHARING THEIR FAITH IN BANGLADESH
24th November, 2014 Two Bangladeshi pastors have been released on bail today after having been arrested and nearly mobbed by about 200 Muslims who gathered to attack a Christian meeting they were leading in North Bangladesh. Around noon on 9th November, in a village in the northern district of Lalmonirhat, locals were outraged after they […]
TENSIONS HIGH AS CHURCH IN SUDAN TRIES TO FEND OFF FURTHER DEMOLITION
24th November, 2014 As churchwomen wailed and young men shouted that they were prepared to die to prevent further demolition, hundreds of Christians in North Khartoum blocked authorities” attempts to destroy buildings on their compound last week. After a bulldozer accompanied by security personnel and police knocked down a wall of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical […]
ESSAY: BURMA’S FORGOTTEN REFUGEES
KAREN McGRATH, media and communications coordinator at international aid agency, Act for Peace, recently returned from Mae La refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. In the first part of a two part article written as the organisation looks to raise support for those living in the camps like Mae La through its annual Christmas Bowl […]