IPC: Connections
Europe: Praying for the Parliamentary Elections 23-26 May 2019
Christian Responsibility for Europe Uniting in prayer, hope, reflection and action Shaping Europe’s future – the European Parliament The European Parliament can seem remote from daily life but it helps to shape the values and direction of our continent. Through its power to block and amend legislation and to lobby…
Iran: New Chief Of Revolutionary Guards appointed
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has appointed a new chief commander of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), just days after the United States designated the paramilitary force as a foreign terrorist organization. Iranian state media reported on April 21 that Khamenei appointed General Hossein Salami as the…
Israel: Prayer Update on Elections
Elections in Israel were yesterday. This afternoon (Wednesday) with some 97% of votes counted, the Likud with Benjamin Netanyahu and the Blue and White party with Benny Gantz were tied, each having received 35 seats each in the new Knesset. However, because the two religious parties, the Sephardic Shas and…
Muslim cleric speaks out on roots of Islamophobia
The senior member of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation has insisted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world. Yahya CholilStaquf, the secretary-general of Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama movement, which claims to…
