The typhoon claimed more than six thousand lives when it devastated the Philippines in 2013.

One child, Marylourds Lim, aged eleven, survived the disaster, but struggled to deal with the mental trauma it caused.

She told the Sailors’ Society: “I kept thinking about it. I kept dreaming a dog was chasing me. I felt that there was another typhoon coming.”

Since the typhoon, the charity has rebuilt 48 homes, four medical centres and three classrooms that double as emergency shelters.

It also founded a Seafarers’ Pupil’s Club to help children come to terms with their traumatic experiences and train them in preparing for disasters.

Having attended the club, Marylourds added, “We were taught how to prepare before and after the typhoon, what we should do. I’m not afraid anymore.”

Sandra Welch, deputy CEO of the Sailors Society, told Premier:

“I’ve spoken many times to the children in the school, their parents and their teachers. As I spoke to them, I realised that many of them are still really traumatised by what had happened. They were still afraid.”

Around a quarter of the world’s seafarers come from the Philippines and the country is key to world trade. With more than 20 deadly storms hitting the Philippines annually, the Sailors’ Society has also set up a Crisis Response Network to help those affected by trauma.

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According to Middle East Concern, the four are accused of “inciting a Muslim to change his religion,” an offence which is punishable with a prison term of two to five years and a fine of 500,000 to 1 million Algerian Dinars ( approx. £3,300 to £6,600).

The charges in the province of Bouira, in the Kabylie region follow accusations made in July this year by a 40-year-old woman whose husband, the main defendant, had converted to Christianity.

She and members of her family accused her Christian husband, together with a Christian family that had attempted to mitigate in the conflict between the couple, of wanting to convert her to Christianity.

Separately, Middle East Concern also report the acquittal of a 29-year-old Christian man who had been charged with “illegal importation of Christian materials.”

The man was returning from a visit to a Middle Eastern country in the summer of 2016 and had with him some items, such as keyrings and scarfs, with Christian inscriptions.

He was tried and acquitted, but in September 2018, the prosecutor decided to appeal. He appeared before a court of appeals in Algiers on 18th October and was once again acquitted of all charges.

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Fr Victor Adigboluja, Fr Anthony Otegbola, Fr Joseph Ediae and Fr Obadjere Emmanuel were captured in the south-eastern Delta State on Tuesday evening.

The Holy See-run Vatican News website said: “Nigerian Catholic Church authorities have asked the faithful in that country to pray for the release of four priests abducted by gunmen…”

The group had been returning from a two-day reunion in Warri (pictured), celebrating their tenth anniversaries as priests when they were ambushed.

The vehicles they were travelling in were sprayed with bullets. Other priests managed to drive away but four members of their party were captured.

The incident comes a fortnight after the release of five nuns from the nearby town of Agbor who were kidnapped on 25th October.

Advising against all but essential travel in inland areas of Delta, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office currently warns there is a “high threat of criminal kidnap” in the area.

Four British missionaries were abducted in Delta State last October. One of them, 57-year-old Ian Squire from Shepperton, died in captivity.

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One of the oldest purpose-built museums in England, an Elizabethan bridge which collapsed following heavy rain and a purpose-built cutlery works have also been added to the heritage at risk register, Historic England said.

In total 242 sites have been added this year to the register, which has been going for 20 years, but 318 others have been removed as they are no longer considered to be at risk of being lost, the Government heritage agency said.

Some 1,489 historic buildings and scheduled monuments, 911 places of worship, 2,151 archaeological sites, 99 parks and gardens, four battlefields and four protected wreck sites and 502 conservation areas are listed as at risk of neglect, decay or inappropriate change.

Historic England said two-thirds of the buildings and sites on the original 1998 list have been rescued, often due to the dogged determination of local communities, charities and owners.

Among the buildings added to this year’s at risk list are Grade II* St Luke’s Church in Weaste, Salford, Greater Manchester, where Emmeline Pankhurst married in 1879, which is threatened by damage from a leaking roof.

Holy Trinity Church in Coventry counts Mary Ann Evans – the author George Eliot – as one of its famous parishioners, and survived the Blitz thanks to its vicar and others sleeping in the church during a raid in November 1941 and dousing any fires.

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Although they will still be paid by a state subsidy fund, Tuesday’s decision marks a significant shift in the status of bishops, and the separation of Church and state in Greece.

This deal was made and announced by Prime Alexis Tsipras and the head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos.

Prime Minister Tsipras said: “I would like, if you allow me, to begin by saying that this meeting is the culmination of a dialogue that has begun a long time ago, both between us, but also between the State and the Church.”

He said that the aim of these decisions was to deal with historic disagreements that hinder current functioning and to make the church self-reliant.

He said: “It solves many decades of outstanding issues that have arisen since the 1920s, but mainly because it is an Agreement for the benefit of both sides” and used language of “mutual respect”.

The main change was that: “The Greek State undertakes to pay annually to the Church in the form of a subsidy an amount corresponding to the current salary cost of the active priests, which will be adjusted according to the salary changes of the Greek State.”

The move takes over 9000 church staff off the payroll and onto a separate state fund, not necessarily altering their pay but ending their direct salaries from the state. However, an increase in the number of clergy would not require the fund to increase.

The fund…