Poor are suffering most in battle for Mosul, says Christian Aid
The poor are suffering the most in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, Christian Aid warned late last week. Christian Aid has been involved in distributing food to some of the more than 69,000 people who have fled their homes since fighting began last month. Madara Hettiarachchi, Christian Aid’s head of humanitarian programmes for […]
PAKISTAN: SURVEY FINDS 50 PER CENT OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS HAVE NO PLAYGROUND; 15 PER CENT OF STUDENTS NO TEXTBOOKS
A survey of Christian schools in Pakistan has found them woefully under-resourced. World Watch Monitor reports…
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Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro dies at age 90
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro – a towering figure of the 20th century – has died at the age of 90. Nine days of mourning are being observed in the Caribbean island nation where Castro seized power in a coup in 1959 and remained President until he formally resigned in 2008, handing power to his brother […]