Fighting prevents access to aid in Yemen as millions “just a step away from famine”
Fighting in Yemen has prevented the distribution of enough grain to feed 3.7 million people for a month, according to the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, noting that this comes as almost 10 million people elsewhere in the country remain “just a step away from famine”. In a statement this week, Mark Lowcock said fighting meant […]
CSW among organisations calling for UN Human Rights Council to establish fact-finding mission into Xinjiang detentions
Religious freedom advocacy CSW has joined more than 15 other organisations in calling for the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate claims of arbitrary mass detentions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-east China. The statement, which was also signed by Amnesty International and Human Rights […]
SNAPSHOT: PEGGY’S COVE, CANADA
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Ethnic Somali Christian policeman forced to relocate after talking about his faith in Ethiopia – sources
World Watch Monitor An Ethiopian police officer was arrested, dismissed and forced to move to another part of the country after he told colleagues about his Christian faith. The 25-year-old man, who grew up in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region as a member of the nearly 100 per cent Muslim Somali tribe, became a Christian two […]
Rabbi with a gift for fundraising among evangelicals mourned as friend
RNS Soon after Southern Baptist leader Bailey Smith famously said “God Almighty doesn’t hear the prayers of a Jew”, he got a call from a US-based Orthodox rabbi challenging Smith to join him on a trip to Israel. That rabbi on the line was Yechiel Eckstein, who single-handedly worked to develop deeper ties between evangelical […]
AFRICA: “THE CORPSES WERE LYING IN THE STREETS”- NIGERIAN REFUGEES FLEE BOKO HARAM
A Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondent reports on the plight of those who have fled to Cameroon in the wake of Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian communities…
Trump strikes muted tone at National Prayer Breakfast, plays up evangelical interests
Washington, DCRNS US President Donald Trump began his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast by renewing his commitment to the religious conservatives who helped lift him into office. “I will never let you down, I can say that – never,” Trump said as he approached the podium on Thursday morning (Feb. 7), speaking to a […]
ESSAY: WHEN UNACCOMPANIED YOUNG ASYLUM SEEKERS TURN 18 IN THE UK, MANY FACE AN IMMIGRATION CLIFF EDGE
Social work lecturer KELLY DEVENNEY, in an article first published on The Conversation, writes about what happens to young asylum seekers after they turn 18 in the UK context…