Islamic missionaries in Madagascar are exploiting the people’s crippling poverty to make converts, a local bishop has warned.

Against a backdrop of rising poverty, ACN is providing funds for holiday camps in Crimea that keep children off the streets.

Local sources have suggested that the killing of the two Christian brothers by their Muslim neighbours may have a religious dimension.

Thousands of sick people across Eritrea are being deprived of vital medical care after the government seized three hospitals, two health centres and 16 clinics.

Islamist extremists have cut off the ears of women seized during a night-time raid on a rural town in Cameroon.

Archbishop Warda who – with ACN’s backing – oversaw the care of IDPs fleeing Daesh, told the charity that Iraq’s Christian presence has been decimated over the last two decades.

Iraq’s Christians have expressed fears that giving Islamic clerics voting rights in the Federal Supreme Court could lead to the country becoming a theocracy.