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‘Martyred’ Iranian pastor remembered 20 years on

Persecution continues today, but in a different form By World Watch Monitor Memorial services are being held in Tehran, London and California to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Haik Hovsepian, an Iranian pastor hailed by many Christians as a martyr. Hovsepian vanished on January 19, 1994, three […]

Waiting for the Ultimate Strategist

[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] The notion of ‘strategy’ often surfaces in the counter-human trafficking discourse when we come together as a […]

Egyptians embrace new constitution

Originally published in World Mag Early results indicate Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly passed a constitutional referendum that paves the way for presidential elections in a country that has ousted two presidents in less than two years. Initial reports show that more than 90 percent of Egyptians approved the new constitution […]

Clouded legacy: The lives of Ariel Sharon

By Jonathan Feldstein —   Originally published in Charisma News Since 2006, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in the news regularly, though less frequently as the years passed, not for what he’d done, but for what he hadn’t done until this week. He died. I write this neither […]

Prayer, services, pickets over ‘national sin of abortion’ [UPDATED]

South African Christian pro-life activists urge churches and Christians in SA to mark the approaching 17th anniversary of abortion-on-demand in the country by praying and participating in pickets in various parts of the country. Since the Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed on February 1, 1997 against the will of […]