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Israel: A prayer walk by Israeli and Palestinian Christians

23 Oct 2015
Recently twenty Palestinian and Israeli women met in a small village in the north of Israel. This village is not well known - there is not even a sign from the main road pointing in its…

Colombia: A possibility of peace

16 Oct 2015
The longest running conflict in the Americas may now have a chance of peace. Historic progress was made recently as Colombia's president and the leader of the FARC rebel group set a six-month deadline to sign…

Cameroon: Obama sends 300 troops and drones to battle Boko Haram

16 Oct 2015
The United States is sending 300 troops along with surveillance drones to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter the Nigerian militant Islamist group, Boko Haram. An advance force of 90 military personnel began…

Australia: Dangerous detention centres for child refugees

16 Oct 2015
Detention centres were set up on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru Island for processing asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, China and Vietnam. A recent report revealed that suicide attempts and hunger strikes were common,…