A GLOBAL agreement sealed at the United Nations’ New York summit on the refugee and migration crisis is a “breakthrough”, the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, says
MORE than 100 politicians from 60 countries met academics and religious leaders in Berlin last week to discuss the challenge of combating religious persecution, and advancing the freedom of religion or belief across the world
THE Indian government is to trial a new vaccine to eradicate leprosy, a disease that continues to affect millions of people around the world, the majority of them in India
THE Bishop of New Jersey, the Rt Revd William Stokes, and the Bishop of New York, the Rt Revd Andrew Dietsche, have urged people not to live in fear, after two bomb blasts last weekend injured 31 people
INTERNATIONAL powers traded fierce statements over the weekend in an attempt to pin the blame on each other for the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire and the continuing bloodshed
DONALD TRUMP’s son has this week compared Syrian refugees to poisoned sweets, on social-media website Twitter
New campaign pushes for Asia Bibi’s release; Gay priest elected bishop in Toronto; Boko Haram kills churchgoers in Nigeria; Iranians convicted over communion wine
THE war in Yemen has caused so much destruction that the international community can no longer appreciate the degree of suffering there, a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns
A SOLUTION to the deadly conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which has caused more than 100,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya community to flee their homes, could be in sight after the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan began work chairing an independent tasked with resolving the dispute
THE Australian Primate, Dr Philip Freier, Archbishop of Melbourne, has advised Christians to vote “according to conscience” in the projected national plebiscite on same-sex marriage
THE last 280 residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq, which has been subject to several attacks in recent years, were flown to Albania last week
AID agencies are hoping that the seven-day ceasefire in Syria, arranged by the United States and Russia, will be robust enough to enable vital supplies to be delivered to Aleppo and other towns and cities where civilians have been trapped for many weeks
US discussions held on safe haven in Iraq; WCC and Roman Catholics review relations; Indian Council of Churches consults on persecution
McKenna Thomas, of Philadelphia, reads memorial ribbons tied to the exterior wall of St Paul’s Chapel, Manhattan, New York City, on the morning of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
A SECURITY guard has been killed as he foiled an intended terrorist attack by militants on a Christian neighbourhood in Peshawar, Pakistan