20 JANUARY ’21 | PRAY FOR INDONESIA
Dear prayer partners, In just over a week, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-most populous country – has been hit by multiple disasters. On Sunday 17 January, massive flooding became the latest in a string of disasters to impact the South-East Asian nation. Thousands of people were evacuated, but at least 15 died over the weekend…
TERROR ATTACKS IN FRANCE AND MACRON’S PLAN TO COMBAT ‘ISLAMIC SEPARATISM’
By Donnelly McCleland French President Emmanuel Macron has said he can understand why Muslims were shocked by controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. But, in an interview with broadcaster Al Jazeera, he said he could never accept the issue justified violence. It comes after Thursday’s deadly knife attack on a church in Nice, the third…
1 JULY ’20 | PRAY FOR MYANMAR
Dear prayer partners, On Sunday 28 June, the United Nations expressed concern over the humanitarian impact of fighting in western Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states. Fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army – an insurgent group fighting for more autonomy for ethnic Rakhine Buddhists – has escalated in recent weeks. The UN urged both…
INDONESIAN PRESIDENT WIDODO LEADS IN EARLY ELECTION RETURNS
18 APRIL 2019 (SOURCE: THE MERCURY NEWS) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo appeared on track Wednesday to win a second term, according to early vote counts, holding a 10 percentage-point lead over a retired general who had courted nationalist and conservative Islamic forces in a campaign waged on the country’s fault lines. Widodo’s apparent victory over Prabowo…
