STRASBOURG — The European Court of Human Rights has declined to hear the appeals of two Swedish midwives who were denied employment because of their refusal to assist with abortions, concluding that the cases are inadmissable. “We are very disappointed by the court’s decision not to take up the cases of Ms. Grimmark and Ms. […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India drove a Christian family into the jungle last week, with one later intercepting their 9-year-old girl and threatening to kill her if she went to school again, her father said. On Wednesday (March 11), two days after an attack expelling the Christians from Bilood village […]
(International Christian Concern) – U.S. Members of Congress have sent a letter to India’s foreign secretary calling for the immediate release of an American pastor who has been detained in India for the past five months. In October 2019, Pastor Bryan Nerren, from Tennessee, was arrested by Indian officials after being accused of violating the […]
(Article18) — A Christian convert serving two years in internal exile in a remote southeastern Iranian city has had his exile extended for a further 11 months due to alleged unauthorized leave of absence. Ebrahim Firouzi, who is 34, began his exile on Nov. 12, just two weeks after returning home from six years in […]
LONDON — A woman in England who was given puberty blockers and male hormones as a teen is speaking out as she regrets the decision and wishes the medical community wouldn’t have given her what she wanted so easily. “I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for […]
(International Christian Concern) – In February 2020, authorities in Nepal deported five foreign citizens due to allegations that they violated the country’s controversial anti-conversion law. According to this law, anyone that causes an individual to convert from one religion to another can be imprisoned, fined, or deported from Nepal. According to local media sources, the […]
(Morning Star News) – A rights group has confirmed reports that suspected Muslim, ethnic Rohingya beat and kidnapped Rohingya Christians on Jan. 26-27 in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. At least 12 Rohingya Christians were hospitalized with injuries from an attack in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar District on the evening of Jan. 26, […]
(Mission Network News) — Growing up deaf in Uganda, Sam believed the words of his village when they said he was cursed. The only deaf person in his small village, he believed he was alone. Different and rejected, his parents attempted to have his “curse” removed through multiple exorcisms. … One day, he attended a […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that an ethnic Montagnard Vietnamese Christian, Y Ngun Knul, was released from prison last week. He was imprisoned for almost 16 years for demanding land rights and religious freedom. Y Ngun Knul was arrested and imprisoned on April 20, 2004, and issued an 18-year sentence […]
(International Christian Concern) – A pastor in India’s Karnataka state was hospitalized after enduring a brutal assault by more than 150 radical Hindu nationalists. According to local sources, attacks on pastors have dramatically increased in recent weeks due to police inaction. On Sunday, March 1, Pastor Manju Keralli was leading a worship service in Bennakoop […]