Liberia investigates new Ebola case
SEVEN weeks after Liberia was declared free of the Ebola virus,
a 17-year-old boy has died of the disease. The country's Deputy
Health Minister, Tolbert Nyenswah, confirmed the new case on
Tuesday, but advised against panic, and said that an attempt to
trace how the boy became infected was already under way. A
Christian doctor, Kent Brantly, who survived the virus has had an
audience with the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Dr
Brantly, working with the Christian aid agency Samaritan's Purse,
decided to return to Liberia after successful treatment in the
United Stgates (News, 29 August
2014).
Asia Bibi is ill, family reports
ASIA BIBI, the Pakistani Christian on death row after being
convicted of blasphemy (News, 20
February), is seriously ill, her family has said. The advocacy
group Church in Chains has reported that Mrs Bibi had intestinal
bleeding, and was so weak that she could barely walk. Her family
has demanded better medical treatment for her.
Bishop blames mine owners for deaths
AN OFFICIAL report on the Marikana mine massacre in South Africa
(News, 24 August
2012) has been dismissed as a whitewash by the Bishop of
Pretoria, the Rt Revd Jo Seoka. The report found that the police
were mostly responsible for the deaths of 34 striking miners in
2012. Writing for a South African news website, Bishop Seoka said
that the London-based company that ran the mine, Lonmin - in which
the Church Commissioners own shares (News, 29 November 2013)
- were also at fault for the deaths.
Israelis arrest Archbishop after protest
THE Palestinian Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atalla Hanna of
Sebastia, has been arrested while protesting against the sale of a
hospital that is part of a Presbyterian church near Hebron, in the
West Bank. Archbishop Hanna was on a peaceful march with a
delegation of Prebyterians and other activists when he was detained
by Israeli security forces. He was released after being held for
several hours.