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News in Brief, 15 September 2017

15 Sep 2017 General
News in Brief, 15 September 2017

Some of the week's happenings you may have missed.

Society & Politics

  • 8-year-old Jewish boy attacked on way home from school: In an unprovoked anti-Semitic attack in Stamford Hill on Monday, the boy was beaten severely and left traumatised. Read more here.
  • New survey of British anti-Semitism: New statistics indicate that half of Britons harbour anti-Israel attitudes, although anti-Semitic attitudes towards British Jews are less widely spread. Read more here.

World Scene

  • Myanmar: Christians under attack as well as Rohingya Muslims: The Barnabas Fund has issued a special warning about the dual threat of persecution facing Myanmar Christians, from both the military and jihadists. Read more here.
  • Sweden launches military drill in fear of Russia: The neutral country is drilling 19,000 soldiers as Russia begins its supposed military ‘exercise’ in Belarus. Troops from the US, France, Norway and other NATO allies are also taking part. Read more here.
  • Neo-Nazi march in Sweden planned for Yom Kippur. The route specified by police for the march takes protesters close to Gothenburg Synagogue on Judaism’s holiest day. Read more here.
  • Sanctions on North Korea fail, while sanction relief for Iran may continue: North Korea expresses defiance in the face of UN sanctions, while the Trump administration has until mid-October to decide whether or not to continue the sanctions relief deal with Iran set up by Obama.

Israel & Middle East

  • Russia plays politics at Israel’s borders: The superpower has urged Syria to not retaliate to the recent Israeli airstrike on an Iranian-run weapons factory within its borders. But its recent assurances to Israel that it will not allow an Iranian foothold to be established on the Golan Heights appear to be hollow.
  • Has Fatah finally broken Hamas? Gaza’s Palestinian faction, which took power in a 2007 uprising, is reportedly looking to reconcile with Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party with no conditions after recent pressure from Abbas. Read more here.
 

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At Prophecy Today UK we are aware that the world is moving very quickly and it is difficult to keep up with all the latest developments – especially when the material circulated by our mainstream media is increasingly far from reality and definitely not devoted to a biblical perspective!

Though we are not a news service, we want to help keep you informed by passing on updates and reports as we are led. This will be a selective, not an exhaustive, round-up, which we hope will be helpful for your prayers. Click here to browse our News archive.

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