The UN are calling the situation in Syria’s city of Aleppo “catastrophic”, after dozens of people were killed in government attacks on targets including a hospital. The attacks on 28th April came within hours of an air strike on a
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The UN are calling the situation in Syria’s city of Aleppo “catastrophic”, after dozens of people were killed in government attacks on targets including a hospital. The attacks on 28th April came within hours of an air strike on a
Read moreAs many as 50,000 Iraqis in the city of Fallujah face starvation and death as they are unable to leave the besieged city that is under the control of ISIL. A senior UN official, Lise Grande, told Al Jazeera on
Read moreAccording to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, up to 50 people – including many children – were killed and dozens others wounded in bombing raids on two schools and five hospitals in separate locations in northern Syria. Ban called the
Read moreIn an email sent to Barnabas Fund last Tuesday, Barnabas partner Dr Jany Haddad, who is based in the city of Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, described how the death toll of the city’s Christians rises daily. This is partly
Read moreResidents of Madaya, about 25km northwest of Damascus, are suffering from severe malnutrition and have little access to fuel and medical supplies because of the siege by government regime forces since July. Abu Abdul Rahman has not eaten in four
Read moreOpen Doors International is asking for prayer for a Christian woman, Dina*, a widow from an area of Central Asia where Islam is extreme. Dina lives in extreme poverty, with two children and her ill, immobile mother in a small
Read moreContrary to popular opinion in the media, Christianity is far from dead in the Middle East, and one place where this is very evident is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Pew Research Centre has
Read moreA stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, has left at least 719 people dead and 863 injured. According to state media, the crush of Muslim pilgrims appears to have been caused by two waves of pilgrims
Read moreAs Yemen’s health system continues to struggle to cope with the ongoing crisis of the war, aid workers are reporting a deep wound affecting the nations children, a wound of trauma that grows ever deeper with the ongoing crisis. According
Read moreA heat wave that has struck Pakistan over the last week has killed almost 700 people, and has left medics battling to treat patients as a state of emergency was declared in hospitals. The majority of people died in government-run
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