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Afghanistan: Covid Crisis amidst increasing attacks
This prayer update is based on input from a contact of IPC’s who is living in the region… Thank you for your faithful prayers for Afghanistan. COVID-19 spreads like wildfire and it looks…
Global: internally displaced persons
There are 9.5 million more internally displaced persons (IDPs) than last year. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) works alongside refugees who have historically fallen through the cracks of support and been ignored by…
Afghanistan: IS attack US military base
IS has taken credit for an attack on 8 April on the largest US military base in Afghanistan - Bagram airfield, near Kabul. The attack came as 100 Taliban prisoners were released, as…
Afghanistan and Taliban begin direct prisoner swap talks
Afghanistan has begun its first face-to-face talks with the Taliban on exchanging thousands of prisoners. Details of the initial meeting in Kabul emerged on Wednesday 1 April, ahead of a planned second day…
Afghanistan: US fails to end stalemate
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced a $1bn cut in American aid to Afghanistan after he failed to convince President Ghani and his political foe, Abdullah, to end a feud that has…
Afghanistan: pray for change
Afghanistan’s population is 99.9% Muslim, containing 72 unreached people groups. There are 48,000 mosques and no churches. Any belief contrary to Islam is illegal. Converting from Islam to Christianity results in death. Christian…
India: Death toll from religious violence rises to 38
NEW DELHI: Tensions remained high in India's capital on Thursday (Feb 27), as thousands of riot police and paramilitaries patrolled streets littered with the debris from days of sectarian riots that have killed…
Franklin Graham and Mass Evangelism in a post-Christian UK
In this feature article, Jason Mandryk from Operation World, also a member of the IPC’s Leadership Team unpacks a number of growing issues affecting the United Kingdom that have been highlighted by Franklin…
Germany: deported asylum-seekers ‘face torture or death’
The leader of the German Evangelical Alliance, Reinhardt Schink, spoke out against the tragedy of Christian refugees and migrants who are sent back to Afghanistan and Iran, even though they could face prison,…
Pakistan / Afghanistan: the Bible in Pashto
For the first time since 1890 the full Pakistani Pashto Bible will be printed. The translation is in the major Yousafzai dialect of Pashto. Up to now missionaries and evangelists and the underground…
