AKWANGA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As a Baptist church member tried to fight off an armed Muslim Fulani herdsman in a village in north-central Nigeria, he told his 7-year-old nephew and other relatives to run. The boy remained, crying and calling for help. Jerome, whose real name is withheld for security reasons, recalled how gunshots woke […]
(Bitter Winter) — Campaigns to eliminate house churches are underway across China. In May, the United Front Work Department of Yanhu district in Yuncheng city in the northern province of Shanxi convened a meeting for grassroots-level officials to discuss religious affairs. One of the primary messages: to keep an eye on and prevent “foreign forces” […]
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (The Christian Institute) — Newcastle Cathedral is being confronted over a weekend-long homosexual and transgender advocacy festival that includes a panel discussion on “Queering the Church.” Coinciding with the city’s pro-LGBT march, the cathedral is hosting four panelists, including a Church of England curate who identifies as “non-binary genderqueer transgender.” Colin Hart, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Around 3 million evangelicals, according to the organizers, filled the streets of the Brazilian city of of São Paulo, in the 27th edition of the March for Jesus, held on June 20. The march began at one of the main metro stations of the city, after the opening prayer of Estevam Hernandes, […]
KENT — A Christian doctor in the United Kingdom is again under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) after the National Secular Society (NSS) told the entity that an unnamed “highly vulnerable” patient could be exposed to the doctor’s alleged practice of “promoting Christianity” during office visits. Richard Scott is a general practitioner (GP) at […]
OTTAWA — A Canadian couple has filed a complaint with a human rights tribunal as they state that their six-year-old daughter came home confused after her teacher allegedly told the class that there is “no such thing as girls and boys.” Jason and Pamela Buffone state that first graders at Devonshire Community Public School in […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge on June 16 handed a Christian father of two in northwest Algeria a suspended prison sentence and a hefty fine for holding worship at his house, four days before another judge fined the owner of land that a church uses. Prosecutors had sought a six-month prison sentence and a […]
(International Christian Concern) — Young girls from a majority Christian community in Punjab, Pakistan were discovered to be repeatedly sold off into sex trafficking in China. These girls, who are from extremely poor Christian families, are sold with dreams of marrying some rich businessmen in China, but instead are forced into sex slavery. In one […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Despite the recent release of Catholic prisoner Asia Bibi, 218 people of faith are still in jail in Pakistan, due to the blasphemy laws; churches and Christian communities are targeted by Islamic terrorism, and religious freedom is far from being a reality in the country. Christian schools are also threatened by radicals, […]
NAGAUR, Rajasthan — A heartbreaking video of a newborn baby left lying in the dirt at a garbage dump in India has grasped the attention of a filmmaking couple, and the two are now seeking to adopt the infant as their own daughter. Vinod Kapri and his wife Sakshi Joshi saw the footage earlier this […]