JERUSALEM (Israel Today) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved a proposed bill that would put an end Muslim calls to prayer being blasted over loudspeakers across Israel. Known as the muezzin, this mosque official is supposed to call the faithful to prayer from a mosque’s minaret five times every day. Modern mosques, […]
Continue reading …(Time) — A man formerly convicted of terrorist offenses has been arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a Protestant church in Samarinda, in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, on Sunday morning, killing a toddler and wounding three other children. On Monday, at around 3 a.m. local time, a Buddhist temple in Singkawang, West Kalimantan […]
Continue reading …(The Sun) — Videos of women being brutally gang-raped are being sold in parts of India for as little as 12p. An investigation by Al Jazeera found that sickening clips depicting rape and the sexual abuse of children are being bought in Uttar Pradesh and transmitted to customer’s phones in seconds. The films, known locally […]
Continue reading …(Metro) — A father-of-six has been forced to flee his home under police guard after he said he suffered ‘years of persecution’ for converting to Christianity. Nissar Hussain, who converted from Islam 20 years ago, was hospitalized after one attack when two men, armed with a pick-axe, left him with a smashed kneecap. Last week, […]
Continue reading …(NBC News) — America woke up Wednesday to a new and unexpected reality — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. In a forceful rebuke to the political establishment, the Manhattan mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th president following one of the most bitter and wildly unpredictable campaigns in […]
Continue reading …JAKARTA, Indonesia (New York Times) — Tens of thousands of Indonesians marched in Jakarta on Friday, demanding that the city’s first Christian governor in decades be jailed for blasphemy. The rally was a show of strength by conservative Islamic groups, who were offended by his earlier remarks about the Quran and want to weaken him […]
Continue reading …(VOA News) — Christian groups are denouncing the jailing of an American pastor who has been detained for nearly a month in isolation in Turkey, accused of posing what officials call a “national security threat.” Authorities and the representatives of Protestant Christian community in Turkey say that Andrew Brunson, who has been a Protestant missionary […]
Continue reading …(CNN) — Sweden has opened its first neutral cemetery, free of any religious symbols, to cater to the country’s large number of atheists. The founder of the site in Borlänge, in central Sweden, said it is open to believers and non-believers alike as long as they don’t have any religious symbols or markings on their […]
Continue reading …(Christian Concern) — A heterosexual couple has launched the next stage of their court challenge to enter into a civil partnership. Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld, from London, have said that they want to be “partners in law,” but do not want to get married. Currently, the law only allows same-sex couples to enter into […]
Continue reading …(Evangelical Focus) — In 2011, only 30% of white evangelical Protestants in the USA would support a politician who commits immoral acts in their personal life. Five years later, the statistic has changed drastically. A new survey published by New York Magazine shows that 72% of white evangelical Protestants in the USA “now believe elected […]
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