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Controversial American vote defused by House of Bishops (RIN)
Supporters of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) have been divided by a proposed amendment to a motion which would have allowed General Synod to give its support to the Americans next week.
Read more >     :: 05/02/2010 ::
Bombs and beatings: 13-year-old girl's life among the Taliban (BBC)
In Pakistan an account of life with the Taliban has emerged from a 13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber.
Read more >     :: 05/02/2010 ::
Chief Rabbi backs Pope’s condemnation of equality laws (Christian Today)
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has said Pope Benedict XVI’s attack on the Government’s equality legislation should be taken seriously.
Read more >     :: 05/02/2010 ::
Haiti PM: Child abduction issue 'distracts' from relief (BBC)
The Haitian prime minister has warned that the case of 10 US missionaries charged with child abduction is a "distraction" from earthquake recovery.
Read more >     :: 05/02/2010 ::
Voodoo 'supreme master': Believers are being discriminated against by Christians in Haiti (NYDailyNews)
"Evangelicals are in control and they take everything for themselves".
Read more >     :: 05/02/2010 ::
'Jos and roots of our national crises' (allAfrica)
A thoughtful and articulate comment piece on the recurrent violence in Plateau state, Nigeria
Read more >     :: 04/02/2010 ::
Sri Lanka's war-displaced begin to pick up pieces
Interview with one returnee - married to a husband she met in a displacement camp and now taking the first steps to a peaceful life
Read more >     :: 04/02/2010 ::
Islamic Society donates 17,000+ textbooks in Uganda (allAfrica)
"Teachers should become more vigilant in spreading Arabic among the young generation to make them love Islam," says the spokesman of the Islamic Call Society, donating more than 17,000 books to Muslim-owned schools in Uganda.
Read more >     :: 04/02/2010 ::
European campaign to drop Haiti's debt (Ekklesia)
International voices are raised to highlight scale of Haiti's debt and urgency to drop it.
Read more >     :: 04/02/2010 ::
CMS Thailand prison mission featured in Christian Today
Gillian and John Robinson, new CMS mission partners in Thailand, are featured in the Mission pages of the online paper Christian Today.
Read more >     :: 04/02/2010 ::
Foreigners killed in north-west Pakistan explosion (BBC)
Three Western aid workers are among at least 10 people killed in an attack on a convoy heading to a girls' school in north-west Pakistan, officials said.
Read more >     :: 03/02/2010 ::
Bishop attacks Minister’s attack on traditional family (RIN)
The broadside at the Minister for Women and Equality, who voiced the attack last year, is delivered by the Rector of St John the Baptist church, Chester, the Rev David Chesters.
Read more >     :: 03/02/2010 ::
Nigeria names panel to probe religious killings (afrolNews)
Nigerian authorities have named a 15-member panel to probe the Muslim and Christian clashes in Jos city, central Nigeria, that killed over 300 people last month.
Read more >     :: 03/02/2010 ::
Storkey calls on church and media to forge new relationship (Christian Today)
The new Chair of the Church and Media Network has called for a new relationship between the church and media to make the most of the opportunities opening up in the digital age.
Read more >     :: 03/02/2010 ::
U.S. Air Force makes way for witchcraft (WND)
According to an official release from the Colorado Springs, Colo., university and air base wing, the chapel is adding this new worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions, including Paganism, Druidism and the form of witchcraft k...
Read more >     :: 03/02/2010 ::
Sri Lanka special forces 'raid Fonseka campaign HQ' (BBC)
The Colombo campaign office of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka has been raided, his supporters say.
Read more >     :: 29/01/2010 ::
SMS 'helped stoke Nigeria violence' (SkyNews)
Text messages that urged people to murder and then burn their victims' bodies reportedly helped stoke inter-religious violence in central Nigeria.
Read more >     :: 27/01/2010 ::
Will endemic corruption suck away aid to Haiti? (Reuters)
Despite the best intentions of the international community, Haitians have little faith they will see the billions of dollars in aid pledged to rebuild their earthquake-shattered country, which international monitors rate as one of the world...
Read more >     :: 27/01/2010 ::
Muslims attack silence over anti-Islamic hostility (BBC)
There is growing disenchantment at the government's "lacklustre response" to rising anti-Islamic hostility, the Muslim Council of Britain has said.
Read more >     :: 27/01/2010 ::
Only Christ can fill your soul, Graham tells 85,000 Indians (Christian Today)
An evangelistic festival headlined by Franklin Graham in southeast India ended on Sunday drew nearly 85,000 people.
Read more >     :: 27/01/2010 ::
Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa wins election (Guardian)
The Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has won the country's first election since the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, state television reported today.
Read more >     :: 27/01/2010 ::
Outside of the rubble, Haiti tends to its living (Reuters)
With food, cash and medicine starting to flow, Haiti's government and aid workers are turning to the mammoth task of feeding and sheltering hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors still living in the capital's rubble-strewn streets an...
Read more >     :: 22/01/2010 ::
France arrests doctor accused in Rwanda genocide (CSM)
France arrested a Hutu doctor wanted at home on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Analysts say it may demonstrate a French shift in how it handles Rwandan exiles facing war crimes charges.
Read more >     :: 22/01/2010 ::
DRC: Concern for refugees rises as river runs low (IRIN)
The risks to the population are also more acute because of the lack of rain; local food production is down, and health visitors who normally run mobile clinics on the Ubangi river have been forced to suspend their operations because they ca...
Read more >     :: 22/01/2010 ::
Accused Pakistani Christian says Muslims tried to coerce him (Compass)
A Pakistani Christian accused of killing a Muslim during the Aug. 1 Islamist attack on Christians in Gojra said he was arrested and tortured only because he was a key witness of the mob assault that left at least seven Christians burned to ...
Read more >     :: 22/01/2010 ::
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