(Evangelical Focus) — Human trafficking and sexual slavery “are not limited by geography anymore, but spread out over the borders of national states though the powerful yet dangerous platform which is the online.” “Sextortion is a new form of sexual exploitation through blackmail using sexual explicit content”, Ioana Humelnicu, Executive Assistant of Abolishion, an organization […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON (Yahoo News) — Judge Neil Gorsuch referred to the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex “marriage” decision as “settled law” on Tuesday, using a stronger phrase than he has for other legal precedents. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked Gorsuch to explain how his views on “marriage equality” have changed since 2004, when the George W. Bush […]
Continue reading …(Evangelical Focus) — God’s servants are everywhere. One such man went by the name of John Harper. As the renowned steam-liner Titanic hit a deadly iceberg on the Atlantic strait that fateful night, 14th April 1912, Harper cried out for women, children and the unconverted to quickly get onto the lifeboats. He even gave his […]
Continue reading …(KTLA/CNN Wire) — A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped and taken as sex slave by ISIS told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that the Iraqi government and the UN should establish an investigation in order to bring members of the brutal regime to justice. Nadia Murad, along with her counsel, international human rights lawyer Amal […]
Continue reading …PARIS (Sky News) — A radicalized Muslim on a crime watchlist shot a policewoman in the head at a road check before attacking a soldier at a Paris airport. The gunman shouted, “I am here to die for Allah; there will be deaths” before attempting to gun people down at Orly airport. The man—known as […]
Continue reading …(The Telegraph) — A father who describes himself as “Anglo-Saxon” has lost a legal battle to prevent his Muslim ex-wife from sending their 10-year-old son to an Islamic secondary school. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he was determined to prevent his son from attending a “school inside a mosque” on […]
Continue reading …(Christian Institute) — More very premature babies are surviving, and with less neurological problems, a new US study has found. The study found an increase in survival rate for babies born between 22 and 24 weeks over a three-year period. It was conducted by Duke Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. […]
Continue reading …(Israel Antiquities Authority) — A wide and impressive 2,000 year old road dating to the Roman period, in an extraordinary state of preservation, was revealed last February in archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority near Highway 375. The excavation was conducted prior to laying a water pipeline to Jerusalem, at the initiative of, the […]
Continue reading …(Christian Concern) — Healthcare workers should do more to talk to dying patients about faith, experts have said. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has advised health workers and care workers to do more to discuss patients’ social, cultural and religious preferences. It comes as a 2016 report showed that spiritual wishes […]
Continue reading …(The Irish Times) — A bill to reduce the penalty for an illegal abortion from 14 years in prison to €1 has been overwhelmingly defeated in the Dáil. The private members bill, introduced this week by AAA-PBP TD Bríd Smith, was defeated by 81 votes to 26 in the Dáil on Thursday, with 22 TDs […]
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