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Four British missionaries were kidnapped in southern Nigeria last week, according to police.
A spokesman for the Delta state police force said authorities were attempting to rescue the four people who were taken by unidentified gunmen on 13th October, according to a report in The Guardian .
Those kidnapped
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Three ancient pools - key sources of water for the Second Temple in Jerusalem - are to be restored in a US-funded project, it has been announced.
Known as Solomon's Pools, the reservoirs are located near Bethlehem in the West Bank and were built by Herod the Great about 2,000
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Sierra Leone will auction one of the world's largest diamonds to fund development projects in the impoverished community where it was found, the group managing the sale said on Tuesday.
The 709-carat gem, named the "peace diamond", was found in the eastern Kono region in
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Rights activists have urged Egypt's government to increase the security of Christians and other minorities after a 50-year-old Coptic Orthodox priest from Upper Egypt was stabbed to death, and another was wounded by a suspected Islamic militant.
Fr Samaan Shahata Rizkallah was chased and repeatedly stabbed in the
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Christian returnees have lunch together in Bashiqa, August, 2017. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor
Christians who have returned to the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, three years after fleeing Islamic State militants, are on high alert now Iraqi forces have retaken
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Global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains, an annual global hunger index said on Thursday.
Nearly half of the 119 countries surveyed had "serious", "alarming" or "extremely alarming" hunger levels between
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The US Supreme Court dismissed a major challenge to President Trump's travel ban on majority-Muslim countries because it has been replaced by a new version, sending the controversy back to the starting block.
The ruling on Tuesday is a victory for the Trump administration, which had
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Slimane Bouhafs was sentenced to five years in prison for “blasphemous” comments on Facebook. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor
An Algerian court has rejected a parole application for Slimane Bouhafs, an Algerian Christian jailed for five years for blasphemy in September
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Religion has long figured prominently into Kenyan politics. But the great lengths presidential candidates and their supporters have gone to connect themselves to the Bible and its heroes in the lead-up to this month's presidential election have disturbed many religious leaders and scholars.
Supporters of President Uhuru
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Eighteen months after Turkmenistan introduced a law requiring religious communities to re-register with the authorities, only two have done so - other applications have been rejected by the government because of “errors”, reports regional news agency Forum 18.
The two groups – both Protestant
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The US has announced it will lift economic sanctions on Sudan “in recognition of [its] positive actions” in fighting terrorism, expanding humanitarian access and reinforcing a cease-fire in conflict areas, but rights groups say the decision is premature as there has been little progress on
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Armed groups in Central African Republic are using rape and sexual slavery as weapons of war in an abuse that may amount to crimes against humanity, a rights group said last Thursday.
Thousands have died and a fifth of Central Africans have been uprooted in
Christians join with other faiths at nationwide day opposing Australia's proposed Carmichael coal mine
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Top - Participants at one of the ARRCC-organised prayer vigils in Sydney and, below - at the Melbourne event. PICTURES: Supplied
Christians were among people representing various faiths who joined with thousands of others in a nationwide "day of action" in Australia in which they
EU "wilfully blind" to risks of deporting Christian converts back to Afghanistan, says Amnesty report
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European countries and the EU are “wilfully blind” to the risks facing Afghans who fail in their asylum claims and are sent home, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
“ All returnees face
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The World Council of Churches has congratulated the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on being awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Committee cited ICAN's "work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking
With Malawi being declared the poorest country in the world in 2016, there is little opportunity for people, without sufficient...