letter from Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC: ‘Why is the world looking away?’
James Stileman
‘Those who live in Goma live in fear. They do not know what is next. They ask why the international community has looked the other way.’
Those are the words of someone I saw in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) just a few months ago – and who, with his family, is now out of his home, having being compelled to flee as rebel forces advanced.
Middle East: ‘sleep-deprived and anxious’
Iain Taylor
‘We are sleep deprived and anxious,’ evangelicals at the centre of the Middle East conflict have told en, ‘but we keep faith in God.’
As the conflict involving Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran reached ever-higher temperatures, staff at Christian TV station SAT-7 reported how they are caught right in the heart of the terrifying situation.
7th October anniversary
Date posted: 23 Oct 2024
Dear Editor,
On the anniversary of the Israel/Gaza slaughter of Jews [by Hamas] and, learning that 9% of the 18–24 year olds in the UK are sympathetic to the Gaza/Hamas/ Hezbollah regimes, I am surprised how quiet pulpits have been on the topic, explaining why [some] Muslims turn to the cruellest of violence.
Israel, Iran and Bible prophecy of the end times
After Israel’s recent bombing of Iran, a friend told me about a preacher who asserted that Russia might be the Gog and Magog of the Book of Ezekiel, that Iran might be one of the hostile nations pictured by the prophets, and that all of this just might be pointing toward the imminence of the literal apocalypse.
“Are we going to do this again?” my friend said.