Short reports with links
Ireland gives €5 million in emergency funding to Sahel region
The Journal.ie – Ten million people are at risk from a growing food crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria.
Read more – http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-gives-e5-million-in-emergency-funding-to-sahel-region-360538-Feb2012/
Turkey urged to allow greater religious freedom
The Journal.ie –The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has said that Turkey should grant equal rights to minorities in the country.
Read more – http://www.thejournal.ie/turkey-urged-to-allow-greater-religious-freedom-360805-Feb2012/
Vandals scrawl anti-Christian graffiti on Jerusalem church
Times.NZ – Vandals daubed ‘Death to Christianity’ on a Jerusalem church on Monday in the second such attack in the holy city this month, police said. The words ‘Price Tag’, a slogan used by ultranationalist Jewish settlers, were also scrawled on the walls of the Baptist Narkis Street Congregation in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Jewish west Jerusalem. “Officers are investigating a strong possibility of a [Jewish] nationalist motive but no one has been apprehended yet,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
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