TORONTO — A Canadian preacher was arrested on Tuesday and charged with disturbing the peace as he was met with opposition while sharing the gospel in a section of Toronto known as “the Gay Village.” David Lynn of Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries had been on a preaching tour throughout Toronto, and says that he was not […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Authorities seized 12 tearful, fatherless children from a Christian ministry in eastern India last month after local officials demolished the ministry’s school and hostel, sources said. After Hindu extremists persuaded the district collector to demolish the hostel and school serving 250 students, child protection personnel and police on May […]
(The Christian Institute) — Pregnant women considering an abortion are being failed, campaigners say, in response to new figures revealing over 13,000 abortions took place in Scotland last year. The statistics showed that women in deprived areas were twice as likely to end the life of their unborn child compared to women in richer areas. […]
(New York Post) — A Dutch teen who was sexually assaulted at age 11 and raped at 14 chose to end her life because she couldn’t deal with the anguish anymore. Noa Pothoven, 17, who lived in the Netherlands, wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post about her heartbreaking decision to stop eating — leading to […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian in Cairo received a death threat by phone last week, he said. Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to […]
Myanmar (Mission Network News) — In a new report, human rights watchdog Amnesty International indicted Myanmar’s government of war crimes and called upon the international community to respond. Amnesty claims military forces “have killed and injured civilians in indiscriminate attacks since January 2019… [and] carried out extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment” in […]
(Open Doors USA) — “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by everyone on account of My name …” Today in the 21st century, Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Mark are reality for millions […]
(The Christian Institute) — A Church of Scotland parish church in Dumfriesshire has come under fire for maintaining the biblical position that marriage is between one man and one woman. Glencairn and Moniaive Parish Church and Dunscore Parish Church share a minister. After the incumbent’s retirement, the churches considered whether to change their position to […]
(The Christian Institute) — Netflix and Disney have threatened to remove their business from the state of Georgia after the governor signed into law a bill seeking to protect the unborn beginning at approximately six to eight weeks gestation. Prior to the law being passed, fifty Hollywood actors, including Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin and Ben […]
Pakistan (Mission Network News) — On Monday, May 27, more than 35 men attacked a Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI)-supported pastor, his wife, and his college-aged daughter in his home. FMI’s Bruce Allen says Pastor Aziz was targeted to prevent his fruitful gospel ministry from continuing. The attack caught Pastor Aziz and his family off guard. Fortunately, a […]