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 With growing numbers across Merseyside (Liverpool) and the UK in general, where will African Pentecostal churches be in the foreseeable future as fewer second generation African migrants go to the churches of their parents? Statistics indicates mainstream churches across the UK including Anglican, Catholic, Methodist and other religions have been losing congregation members in thousands […]

Loneliness, isolation and mental health issues are some of the side effects the UK government lock down measures to help stop the spread of the deadly COVID 19 pandemic has brought to millions of people across the country. “This is the first call I am receiving in over five months now”, a 64 year old […]

Posted on Youtube on thursday July 23 2020, the song “Bye and Bye” composed byformer teacher turned domestic worker Lucy Turay, 27, has had more than twothousand views. The first eight lines of the song explain the direcircumstances, Lucy and 33 other Sierra Leonean girls/women now findthemselves in Beirut, the capital of troubled Lebanon. They are unable to leave, with nopapers, […]

The day couldn’t have been more perfect and symbolic. July 24 2020, the day the government extended the use of face masks in England to help reduce the spread of the corona virus. Citizen Outreach chose this date to again give out free face masks to hundreds of residents of Toxteth L8 in Liverpool. Initially […]

Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) joined hundreds of other charities fighting COVID-19 on Saturday July 11 2020 when it distributed close to 1000 face masks. This happened in Lodge Lane, the “High Street’ of Toxteth, an inner city neighbourhood in Liverpool inhabited mainly by Black and minority ethnic people. Funding for the project was made possible […]

Not surprisingly, religion (and not businesses) are one of the fastest growing African led sectors in the UK. Religion including Christianity, Islam is growing fastest across Africa. Some scholars think this is because some Africans, unable or unwilling to face some of the challenges of everyday living, run to churches looking for miracles that oftentimes, […]

With close to a million people displaced from their homes, some living in bushes and others in neighbouring Nigeria, Citizen Outreach Coalition-Cameroon (COC-Cameroon) has extended a helping hand to some of them in Bamenda, the North West regional capital. The aid was administered with help from Bamenda based organisation Youth Outreach Programme with Funding from […]

More Liverpool and other sports enthusiast joined us on day five of our year long project codenamed “Kick CardioVascular Diseases out of Merseyside”. Football, table tennis and some walkout at the gym were the sporting activities that took place on Saturday September 7 2019 at the Jubilee Sports Bank, a sporting facility situated in Kensington, […]