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In Burundi, more than a quarter of a million people have fled in terror as opposition militias plot their return.

September 15 2016 | by

A WOMAN recently wrote to an advice columnist relating how she met her husband. At the time, the woman was only 14 and given the honor of reading from the Bible during an Easter service. At...

May 02 2016 | by

WHEN Pope Francis met Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Cuba on February 12, some saw it as an encounter of huge spiritual significance, a sizeable step towards unity within the global Christian...

March 11 2016 | by

WITH THE countdown to the US presidential elections in November well and truly underway, there is one person who’ll be watching events unfold over the next nine months from a very particular...

February 25 2016 | by

THE STORY last October of an Indian maid who had her arm chopped off by her employer in Saudi Arabia shocked the world. Returned to India in November, after a month in a Riyadh hospital, 58-year-old...

January 07 2016 | by

SHAHBAZ Bhatti walked out of his mother’s home, stepped into a waiting car and drove away. Moments later, his mother heard the deadly thunder of an assassin’s bullets banging into the...

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