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Global: human slaves
The 2018 Global Slavery Index revealed that North Korea has the most human slaves in the world. Research showed it keeps over 2.6 million people in modern day slavery - that is, one…
Europe: inside people-smuggling networks
Nazeri Zubair’s travelling companion crushed a pill, dissolved it in water, and fed it to her two-year-old daughter to make the baby sleep for over a day. It was a requirement of the…
NATO focusses on Afghanistan
NATO leaders moved beyond the demands of Donald Trump for higher defence spending, and focussed on ending the long war in Afghanistan, in the second day of a summit in Brussels underscored by…
Praying for the Persecutors
By Brian Mills, Senior Advisor to the IPC In recent days and weeks the catalogue of stories about Christians being persecuted seems to have increased in momentum. Last week it was Mozambique, where…
Three Challenging National Situations Needing our Prayers
Afghanistan: Pray for hope and a future for children of tiny Christian minority US-based think-tank Jamestown reported on the Taliban’s month-long spring campaign on 2 June 2018, describing the Taliban’s strong ability to…
Pray for the Refugees
UN Says Record 68.5 Million People Displaced Globally In 2017 June 19, 2018 09:04 GMT A Syrian refugee girl sits outside her tent at an informal refugee camp in Arsal, near the border…
Afghanistan: ceasefire
On 7 June, president Ashraf Ghani announced a ceasefire with Taliban insurgents until 20 June, coinciding with the end of Ramadan, but said fighting against IS will continue. He added that the ceasefire…
Iran: sanctions, Syria and uranium
Three world leaders outlined their opinions on Iran. The US secretary of state threatened to impose ‘the strongest sanctions in history’ if Iran doesn’t meet a list of demands, including abandoning involvement in…
Iraq and Afghanistan: elections
Iraqi religious figures and institutions are debating the 12 May elections in public. Some call for boycotting them, some recommend voting for new candidates. The Shi’ite religious establishment, believing the previous ‘corrupt people’…
Smuggling migrants from Spain to the UK
Investigations are ongoing to identify, tackle and dismantle organised crime groups involved in movements of migrants entering Europe via the Western Mediterranean Route to the UK. Recently, Europol supported Spanish Guardia Civil in…
