(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has called on police in Tamil Nadu, India, to take action to investigate an incident in which a Christian couple from Pakkam village, Gudiyatham, Vellore District were assaulted and humiliated for sharing Christian gospel tracts. Babu Phinegas and his wife Esther have been local traders for the […]
Continue reading … TULSA, Okla. (WGAL-TV) — A Tulsa pastor with no known underlying health problems is the first person to die from the coronavirus in Oklahoma. Merle Dry, 55, worked for Metro Pentecostal Church for more than 20 years before his death. Metro Pentecostal Church said Dry was in good health before he died. He was fighting […]
Continue reading …EVERETT, Wash. (KOMO) — A mother of six who previously survived cancer died due to an infection from the novel coronavirus. Sundee Rutter lost her husband years ago and worked on her own to provide for her children. She was 42. “We’re pretty devastated,” says Rutter’s friend of 30 years, Jessica Harris. “She beat cancer and […]
Continue reading …SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — As a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Salt Lake City Wednesday morning, it also damaged an icon of one of the world’s most recognized false religions, causing the statue of the Angel Moroni — on the top Salt Lake City temple of the LDS Church — to drop its trumpet. Placed […]
Continue reading … (The Weather Channel) — U.S. officials on Sunday warned the elderly and people with underlying health issues to stay off cruises and reconsider air travel just as one cruise ship hit by the coronavirus prepared to dock in Oakland, California, and another waited off Florida’s east coast for test results on two crew members. […]
Continue reading …(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Nine Christians were beaten by the police on Feb. 21 after being accused of “forceful conversion” in the town of Sathankulam, Thoothukudi District, in India’s Tamil Nadu state. On Feb. 18, Pastor Shajin from Devasabai church led a team of seven pastors from Rameswaram town to Sathankulam, where they were met […]
Continue reading …(Middle East Concern) — Iranian Christians are pleased that Christian convert Mary (Fatemeh) Mohammadi has been released conditionally from Qarchak women’s prison in Varamin. Mary, 21, was arrested on Jan. 12 near Azadi Square in Tehran while protests were underway following the downing Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of […]
Continue reading …(Daily Mail) — A parishioner destroyed a Virgin Mary shrine at a church in western Mexico after his alleged prayer for a miracle was not answered. The incident took place Monday morning at the Guadalajara Cathedral in Guadalajara, Jalisco, after a fellow churchgoer had finished praying. A church surveillance camera recorded the moment the man, […]
Continue reading … (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Rebecca Sharibu, the mother of 16 year-old schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, joined a protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in London, organized by CSW to mark the second anniversary of her daughter’s abduction and call on the Nigerian government to do everything in its power to secure her release. Leah Sharibu […]
Continue reading …(Cafe Mom) — Workers at a recycling plant in New Brunswick, New Jersey, made two chilling discoveries this week, just hours apart from one another. According to the New York Post, police were called to the Colgate Paper Stock Recycling Processing Facility around 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday, where they found the body of a newborn. […]
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