SNAPSHOT: ‘RICE PATTERNS’, INDONESIA
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Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Christian artists face increasing financial challenges
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Pakistan Christian still on death row, five years after his ‘blasphemy’ sparked Joseph Colony attack
World Watch Monitor At the fifth anniversary of the arson attack on a Christian neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Lahore, the mother of the Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam – and so provoking the attack – says she still prays for his release. Sawan Masih*, a 30-year-old sanitation worker, was accused by a Muslim […]
SYRIA: POVERTY DRIVES MORE REFUGEE GIRLS TO EARLY MARRIAGES
As the conflict in Syria enters its eighth year, HEBA KANSO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the war has been driving girls into earlier marriage…
More than half a million dead as Syria’s war enters eighth year
Thomson Reuters Foundation Syria’s bloody war entered its eighth year on Thursday with thousands of civilians fleeing deadly assaults on besieged territory, and refugees in camps across its border falling deeper into poverty. Over the past seven years, Syria’s conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, driven millions more from their homes, disturbed the […]