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HOW TO REMAIN KINGDOM-FOCUSED AS TENSIONS RISE BETWEEN ISRAEL & IRAN
By Alexandra Nyoni
On Monday 1 April, suspected Israeli fighter jets carried out a missile strike on the Iranian consulate building and wider embassy compound...
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...
DEATH OF IRAN’S PRESIDENT A REMINDER THAT ETERNITY IS AT STAKE
By Alexandra Nyoni
On Sunday, 19 May, a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, crashed in the...
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...
AFRICAN REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS FACE FURTHER HARDSHIP ALONG ‘YEMENI ROUTE’
By Katelin van Zyl
On Monday 21 August, Human Rights Watch (HRW) publicly released a report documenting “widespread and systematic” abuses committed by Saudi border...
LESSONS OF HOPE FROM MOTHERS IN MEXICO FACING LOSS
By Jeremiah Goddard
05/09/2024
Official records indicate that since 1952, at least 115,000 people have gone missing in Mexico, although the actual number is likely higher....
BURKINA FASO REPLACES DRC AS WORLD’S MOST NEGLECTED DISPLACEMENT CRISIS
By Katelin van Zyl
On 1 June, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) released its annual report highlighting the world’s most overlooked displacement crises. For 2022,...
YEMENI TANKER FUNDRAISER DISPLAYS THAT THERE IS NO LIMIT IN A UNITED CAUSE
By Gigi Kotze
In August, according to the United Nations (UN), a "floating time bomb" oil tanker left adrift in the Red Sea was successfully...
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...
RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CHURCH IN THE MIDST OF WAR
By Alexandra Nyoni
Following comments made by French President Emanual Macron and the British Foreign Secretary regarding their continued support for Ukraine in its war...
