Christian Today staff writer

• Alan Kurdi anniversary: Faith leaders press UK government to do more for child refugees

  UK faith leaders have used the anniversary yesterday of the death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi to urge the government to do more to help child refugees.

• Nigerian security forces accused of failing Christians as Fulani militants murder pastor and family

  The dead include a pastor, Rev Adamu Gyang Wurim, his wife and three of their six children.

• Christian charity Mercy Ships teams up with WHO to boost African healthcare

  The agreement signed in Dakar, Senegal, aims to increase access to surgical care and build the capacity of health workers to strengthen surgical care delivery systems.

• Could Lewis Pugh's ancestry provide a clue to his epic swimming achievement?

  It's another awesome achievement by someone who has already dropped jaws around the world for his astonishing feats of physical prowess.

• Head of Church Mission Society to be new Bishop of Truro

  The next Bishop of Truro has been announced as Rev Philip Mounstephen, currently head of Church Mission Society.

• Grants from Ecclesiastical fund sabbatical breaks for Anglican clergy

  Anglican clergy are given the opportunity for sabbatical breaks supported by church insurer Ecclesiastical.

• No child should self-harm, says Bishop of Gloucester

  No child should feel the need to self-harm, the Bishop of Gloucester has said in response to a report by the Children's Society.

• Aid agencies fear new British aid policy will put business before the poor

  Aid agencies have expressed concerns at a speech by Prime Minister Theresa May in which she spoke of a 'fundamental shift' in UK aid and development policy.

• Israel demolishes family home of Palestinian attacker

  The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank who killed an Israeli in a Jewish settlement a month ago and was shot dead in the attack.

• Italy's evangelicals launch relief fund after bridge disaster

  According to the Italian Evangelical Alliance, among the dead was the sister of an evangelical pastor, identified by Evangelical Focus as 24-year-old Stella Boccia,

• Vue Cinemas pays out for cancelled 'gay cure' film

  The film Voices of the Silenced was due to be shown to an invited audience of 120 people at the Vue Cinema in Piccadilly in February.

• Operation Noah film highlights why climate change is a faith issue

  Christian charity Operation Noah has launched an animated film designed to help Christians around the world recognise the human cost of climate change.