China can't get enough Bibles
‘Hallelujah!’ cries 67-year-old Zhang Fang Rong as she raises her arms in thanksgiving.
A Mongolian child milking goats © Neil Emmerson
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A walk on the wild side
Ella, a 16-hand Percheron mare, is pulling a felled piece of wood weighing around a tonne out of dense brambles and woodland near Bosbury, Herefordshire. Her handler, Doug Joiner, chairman of British Horse Loggers, quietly guides her massive footsteps through difficult terrain. “Gee off … come here,” he calls. The commands sound like those at sheepdog trials, and Ella is as responsive as any trained dog.
About Hazel
Hazel Southam is an award-winning journalist who reports on religious affairs, international development and the environment. She has covered four G8 Summits.
She wrote for The Sunday and Daily Telegraph for 10 years. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard.
Reporting assignments have taken her to places including Bosnia, Zimbabwe, Mongolia, Albania, Nagorno-Karabakh, Senegal and the Arctic Circle.
In the UK, she has also delivered media training to the MOD and leading businesses.
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