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Massacres And Miracles From Colombia to Nigeria: Who Will Tell These Stories?
Massacres And Miracles From Colombia to Nigeria: Who Will Tell These Stories?

(OPINION) The future journalist was both shocked and inspired by her contact with Christians caught in that land's toxic climate of paramilitary warfare, drug trafficking and kidnappings. She struggled to grasp how someone like pilot Russell Martin Stendal, after years held for ransom, could forgive his kidnappers and then start a missionary effort to convert them.

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Analysis, Christianity, Conflict, Corruption, Crime, Human Rights, Latin America, Justice, Opinion, Religion, Religion News, Religious Freedom, TERRY MATTINGLYTerry MattinglyColombia, Deann Alford, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, paramilitary warfare, Russell Martin Stendal, narcotrafficking, Terry Mattingly, Victorious: The Impossible Path to Peace, Religious Freedom, Religion news coverage, On Religion, Latin America, Nigeria Comment
Myanmar: Death And Destruction Two Years After The Tatmadaw’s Coup
Myanmar: Death And Destruction Two Years After The Tatmadaw’s Coup

(ANALYSIS) Marking the two years of the Tatmadaw in power, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that, to date, the military coup has led to the death of around 3,000 civilians as well as the destruction of villages and houses of worship in various parts of the country.

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Analysis, Asia, Islam, Religious FreedomEwelina U. OchabEwelina U. Ochab, Tatmadaw, Burma, Myanmar, Coup, Human rights, Religious freedom, Oppression, Human Rights, Ko Jimmy, Kyaw Min Yu, Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, Aung Thura Zaw, Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, Rohingya Muslims, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, Ewelina OchabComment