Charlie Gard’s parents end legal fight to take him to US for treatment
RNS/USA TODAY An undated photo of Chris Gard and Connie Yates with their son, Charlie Gard, provided by the family, at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. PICTURE: Family of Charlie Gard via AP A five-month legal battle to get permission to take terminally ill baby Charlie Gard to the United States for experimental treatment ended Monday after […]
More than half people living with HIV now have access to treatment, says UNAIDS
More than half of all people living with HIV now have access to treatment while AIDS-related deaths have halved since 2005, according to a new UNAIDS report. The report, Ending AIDS: progress towards the 90–90–90 targets, shows that last year 19.5 million of the 36.7 million people living with HIV had access to treatment and that […]
POSTCARDS: FOUR CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS TO START UNIVERSITY IN AUGUST
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor reports on how a chairt aimed at helping children pursue their studies in areas affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria, have helped 10 of the girls kidnapped from their school Chibok to pursue their education…
THIS LIFE: MAKING EACH SEASON COUNT
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in article which comes via ASSIST News Service, says it’s important to make the most of every season of life…
Call for prayer as Turkey reviews sentences handed down over killing of three missionaries
Christians in Turkey have asked for people to pray as a court is reviewing sentences handed down last year over the killing of three Christian missionaries in eastern Turkey in April, 2007. German missionary Tilmann Geske and Turkish converts Necati Aydin and Uğur Yüksel were repeatedly stabbed and had their throats cut when they were […]