CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST IMPRISONED IN GEORGIA FOR PREACHING TO MUSLIMS, ACTIVISTS SAY
9th May, 2016 Christian activists have asked for prayer for a frail Christian evangelist from Azerbaijan who has been spending a year behind bars in neighboring Georgia on what his supporters say are "trumped up charges" of drugs possession. If convicted the man could face 14 years imprisonment, Christians said. The Azeri evangelist, who Christians […]
DEATH TOLL FROM ECUADOR QUAKE REACHES 660 WITH MORE MONEY FOR AID NEEDED
9th May, 2016 The death toll from an earthquake which devastated the South America nation of Ecuador’s north-west last month has reached 660, the UN announced late last week with some 23 people still said to be missing. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said nearly 23,000 buildings were destroyed after the […]
CHRISTIANS KILLED AS THOUSANDS FLEE CONTINUING ISLAMIST VIOLENCE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
9th May, 2016 Islamist militants are suspected to have killed between 20 and 40 villagers in the eastern extremes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to news reports and a World Watch Monitor source. Attackers carried machetes and axes into a village in North Kivu province, in eastern DRC, late in the evening […]
THIS LIFE: CRYING FOR HOME
NILS VON KALM reflects on the sense of longing he feels for the Kingdom of God to come in all its fullness now…