Eurasia News

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Rashida is the third wife of a Muslim man — concurrent, not consecutive — and she’s still got that honeymoon smile. She has her own flat, just like the other two wives. Her husband’s offspring are expanding in triplicate, which makes for the occasional giant [...]

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Mahfuzah* thought no one knew she believed in Jesus — until the day her mother beat her. “She said, ‘Something is different about you — what is it?’ I told her I was the same,” Mahfuzah said. “But then she went to the fortune teller, and [...]

By Ava Thomas NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Sadiqah* has heard plenty of stories about what sometimes happens when people in her country turn from Islam to Christ. She heard once about some whose family tortured them with electricity and told them that’s what it will feel like when they burn in hell. [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — For more than 200 years, London has been the dwelling place of some of the globe’s most remarkable cultural treasures. In an hour’s stroll through the British Museum, a visitor can view Greek statues from the Parthenon and colossal stone winged lions from an Assyrian palace. You can also see [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — In the church-like quiet of the great hall, worshippers gather to meditate, some with heads bowed as they listen to the recitation of scriptures. Men and women sit cross-legged on the carpet, their feet carefully pointing away from the front where worship is being led. The hall isn’t one of [...]

By Ava Thomas HORN OF AFRICA — t wasn’t a premeditated act the day Demissie* stole his grandchildren. But when he saw how his son Beniam* was raising them, he made a snap decision. “When you die, I’m not coming to your funeral,” Demissie told Beniam. “You are no longer my son. You are dead [...]