The levels of malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia's drought could lead to a "human tragedy of unimaginable proportions", the UN refugee head Antonio Guterres has said ( Read more... )

Residents in the Spanish town of Lorca are assessing the damage from quakes that killed nine people and forced thousands to spend the night outdoors ( Read more... )

The leaders of 17 unofficial Christian churches in China have appealed to political leaders to protect their right to worship ( Read more... )

Christians in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, are holding a protest vigil near Tahrir Square following an attack on two churches in which 12 people died ( Read more... )

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At least three people have been killed in the Greek capital as protesters set fire to a bank during a general strike over planned austerity measures ( Read more... )

Christian College Students Attacked in IraqERBIL, Iraq - About 70 college students, most of them Christians, were wounded Sunday and another Iraqi was killed when a convoy of school buses was attacked in a double bombing on the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul, according to a security official ( Read more... )

Australia has set out plans for new rules forcing tobacco companies to use plain packaging carrying graphic health warnings ( Read more... )

A 10-year-old British boy has become the first child to undergo a windpipe transplant with an organ crafted from his own stem cells.

It is hoped that using the boy's own tissue in the nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital will cut the risk of rejection.

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So Katya, knowing my propensity for re-blogging articles on the things that interest me, asked if I had seen articles about the violence against Christians in Nigeria. I had, I explained, but hadn't posted for a variety of reasons, not least of which was being tired of posting so much bad news lately. And now that I've re-pondered it I think I ( Read more... )