News Bites
NIGERIEN CHRISTIANS PRAY FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION TO COUP CRISIS
By Donnelly McCleland
On Sunday 10 September, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected a demand from Niger’s military rulers to withdraw its troops from the country...
SAFE EARTHQUAKE REBUILDING AND RECOVERY NEEDED IN TÜRKIYE AND SYRIA
By Katelin van Zyl
Wednesday 6 September marks seven months since the devastating series of earthquakes that killed more than 55,000 people and injured 10,000...
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...
KENYAN FORCES ARRIVE IN HAITI TO ASSIST WITH PEACE-MAKING EFFORTS
By Alex Pollock
On Sunday 20 August, a group of 1,000 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to begin a year-long...
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...
MASS EXODUS FROM BHUTAN BRINGS HOPE AMIDST UNCERTAINTY
By Jeremiah Goddard
Since May 2022, 12,000 Bhutanese have emigrated to Australia, approximately 1.5% of the population. This small, landlocked Buddhist country of only 777,000...
BELIEVERS CONTINUE TO SERVE IN SUDAN DESPITE THE WAR’S SEVERE TOLL
By Katelin van Zyl
On Monday 14 August, Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief General Abdel Fattah Burhan delivered a rare, televised speech in which he...
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...
MOROCCO’S HISTORIC WORLD CUP – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH
By Donnelly McCleland
On 3 August, Morocco’s Atlas Lionesses reached the knockout stage of the 2023 Women’s World Cup with a dramatic victory over Group...
CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE DECRY QURANIC BURNINGS
By Jeremiah Goddard
On Monday 24 July, members of the Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots), a Danish ultra-nationalist group, burned pages of the Quran as well...
