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Colombia : peace agreement after fifty years
02 Sep 2016
Colombia declared an end to the longest-running civil conflict in the Western hemisphere last week. In a historic agreement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - known as FARC - signed a peace agreement with the…
Libya: thousands of migrants rescued
02 Sep 2016
On Monday, 6,500 migrants were rescued from the sea twelve miles off Libya in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date. Migrants from Eritrea and Somalia were cheering and some were swimming to…
Vietnam: protesters beaten by police
02 Sep 2016
4,000 Catholics were beaten by police as they protested against the government allowing the contamination of seventy tons of fish from waste dumped into the sea. The pollution was caused by Formosa Plastic Group, a steel…
MAF: flying for life
02 Sep 2016
For seventy years the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has helped vulnerable people in hard-to-reach places. Flying onto desert and jungle airstrips, lakes and rivers, tracks and roads, its light aircraft and their mission pilots go the…
Australia: online schoolgirls pornography ring
02 Sep 2016
An online pornography ring targeting thousands of Australian schoolgirls has re-emerged after police had closed it down earlier this month. Police and detectives in several states are investigating a website containing sexual images of girls from…
‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel?
02 Sep 2016
In a surprise announcement, Mel Gibson told evangelist Greg Laurie that he is working on a sequel to his film ‘The Passion of the Christ.’ Gibson said, ‘We're talking about that. Of course, that is a…