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Global corruption – not just FIFA

04 Jun 2015
The following comes from Radio 4’s Thought for the Day earlier this week. FIFA’s problems are part of global issues. Corruption conjures up images of people getting rich. But corruption often produces more poverty than wealth.…

Burundi: It's enough to make you cry

04 Jun 2015
The following is from a missionary working in Burundi: ‘I'm sitting in a café having a snatched lunch alone, and I'm crying. Our teams on the frontline urgently need more resources to help save lives. The…

Afghanistan: News from a missionary

04 Jun 2015
‘Daily we receive reports of more atrocities, higher death tolls, repeated attacks on NGOs  and guest-houses with foreigners as victims. Pray that this spring offensive may soon come to an end and that the whole Taliban…

Syria: IS fighting, Christian retaliation and Assad’s bombs vandalising Syria

04 Jun 2015
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a Syrian Christian fighter from the Syriac Military Council beheaded a militant of Islamic State in northwest Syria as revenge for the terror group’s violence against the…