(Charisma News) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that seven Evangelical Christians in Chiapas, Mexico, were incarcerated on December 15 after refusing to convert to Catholicism. State and federal authorities had been informed of threats to illegally expel or incarcerate members of the Evangelical community weeks in advance but have refused to intervene. The […]

JANESVILLE (Gazette Extra) — About a dozen anti-abortion advocates from the group Missionaries to the Preborn picketed Speaker Paul Ryan’s Janesville office Monday, calling on him to permanently defund Planned Parenthood. People from the Milwaukee-based group carried signs outside Ryan’s office with slogans such as “Planned Parenthood Murders Babies,” “Paul Ryan Supports Selling Baby Parts” and […]

MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Christians on the Philippine island of Mindanao believe Maoist rebels are responsible for killing a Baptist pastor and his adult son near a southern town on Nov. 27. A friend of the pastor in Mindanao told Morning Star News that area Christians believe insurgents with the New People’s Army (NPA), […]

(Reuters) — North Korea’s highest court has sentenced a South Korea-born Canadian pastor to hard labor for life for subversion, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Hyeon Soo Lim, the head pastor at a Toronto church that is one of Canada’s largest, has been held by North Korea since February. He had […]

Tunis (AFP) — A court in Tunisia has sentenced six students to three years in jail each on charges of homosexuality in a judgment condemned by rights activists, their lawyer said on Monday. The court in Kairouan last week handed down the maximum term under a controversial article of the criminal code that criminalizes sex […]

(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda recently set a deadly trap for a Christian policeman who had left Islam, and the next day other hard-line Muslims kidnapped three children from another convert in a nearby village, sources said. More than 20 Muslim extremists in the Komodo area of Kadama Sub-county, Kibuku District, killed […]

(Christian Aid Mission) — An indigenous missionary working in a remote mountain area of the southern Philippines and his 24-year-old son were shot dead as they bathed in a river on Nov. 27. A communist death squad is suspected. Feliciano Lasawang, known locally as Pastor Cris, and his son, Darwin, were bathing at 6 a.m. […]

MARIETTA, Ohio — The president of a medical waste company in Ohio that had been profiting from the disposal of aborted babies from several abortion facilities, including two Planned Parenthood locations, says that his business will no longer be involved with the practice due to the “adverse attention” the company has been receiving following an investigation […]

(KDFM-TV) — A political conflict is playing out within the walls of the Muslim community in Southeast Texas. A man who was the leader of Muslims in the area said Thursday the conflict has resulted in his ousting. “Don’t get me involved in any political games in the name of religion. I am not here […]

(World Magazine) — In 2002, no major U.S. corporation covered transgender procedures, such as gender-reassignment surgery and drug therapy, under its employee medical benefit plan. Today more than 400 do, including Ford, Apple, and Coke. The Kroger Co., the largest grocery chain in the nation with 2,500 stores, is set to join the list next […]