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MYANMAR’S HOUR OF NEED: MAY THOSE WHO BRING AID ALSO BRING JESUS
By Isolde Doubell
22/05/2025
China's President Xi Jinping has been standing with Myanmar after the deadliest earthquake in a century hit the Southeast Asian nation on...
SERBIAN ATTACK ON KOSOVO POLICE HIGHLIGHTS GROWING TENSION IN THE BALKANS
By Alex Pollock
On Sunday, 24 September, 30 armed Serbs attacked a police patrol in the usually peaceful village of Banjska in northern Kosovo, killing...
NEW ITALY-TUNISIA MIGRANT DEAL BRINGS RELIEF TO SOME
By Katelin van Zyl
On Friday, 20 October, Italy signed a deal during a visit to Tunis to hire some 4,000 Tunisian workers every year....
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE CHINA-TAIWAN CONFLICT?
By Alex Nyoni
During the Shangri-La Dialogue peace summit in Singapore from 31 May to 2 June, China’s defence minister Dong Jun doubled down on...
EXPULSION FROM TUNISIA LEAVES HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS TO WANDER THE DESERT
By Alex Pollock
Hundreds of mainly black, sub-Saharan African migrants are being rescued from the elements of the Sahara Desert between Tunisia and Libya following...
COULD MPOX BE THE NEXT COVID-19?
By Gustav Krös
On Wednesday, 14 August, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the upsurge of mpox in...
RIVAL ECONOMIC CORRIDOR LINKING INDIA TO EUROPE, VIA MIDDLE EAST, PLANNED
By Alex Pollock
On Saturday, 9 September, in a sideline meeting during the G20 summit, several countries agreed to the creation of a multinational rail...
PAKISTAN CHURCH UNDER FIRE: A CALL TO ANGUISH
By Gigi Kotze
26/09/2024
In the first eight months of 2024, Pakistan has seen a sharp rise in militant violence, resulting in 757 deaths and nearly...
INDIA AND PAKISTAN HEAD TO HEAD OVER ATTACK IN KASHMIR
By Isolde Doubell
08/05/2025
Kashmir has been in the news once again after 26 tourists were brutally killed at gunpoint at the end of April. The...
CRUCIAL ROLE OF DIPLOMACY AS CALLS FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE GROW
By Donnelly McCleland (with contributions from Gustav Krös and Gigi Kotze)
Today, 30 November, Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement to extend their six-day...
