CHILDREN IN URBAN AREAS IN WORLD’S POOREST COUNTRIES AT LEAST TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE AS RICHEST IN SAME CITY, SAYS REPORT
7th May, 2015 Image taken from the cover of the report. Despite a dramatic decrease in the global mortality rate of under fives since 1990, growing inequality between the rich and poor in many cities means in most developing countries, the poorest children are twice as likely to die as the richest children in the […]
BRAZILIAN PASTOR FACES JAIL FOR MISSIONARY WORK IN SENEGAL
7th May, 2015 Pastor Jose Dilson, a Brazilian missionary who has worked in West Africa for 25 years, faces a possible prison term over the conversion of a militant Muslim leader’s son, well-informed Christian sources say. The pastor founded school ‘ABC’ to offer educational support and support hundreds of families in the region. Pastor Dilson […]
CAR: WARRING FACTIONS DEVOTE A WEEK TO PEACE
ILLIA DJADI, of the World Watch Monitor, reports on new efforts to bring peace to the war-torn Central African Republic…