(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. […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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, […]

 (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 […]

(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. […]

(Fox News) — The arrival of American evacuees from a virus-plagued cruise ship docked in Japan nearly doubled the number of coronavirus cases on U.S. soil to 29. Separately, one U.S. citizen died in China. Two charter flights carrying 340 passengers who had been on the Diamond Princess cruise ship arrived at military bases in […]

(USA Today) — Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection this week amid declining membership and a drumbeat of child sexual abuse allegations that have illuminated the depth of the problem within the organization and Scouts’ failure to get a handle on it. After months of speculation and mounting civil litigation, the Chapter 11 […]

KUALA LUMPUR (FMT News) — The siblings of Indonesian Ruth Sitepu, who has been missing together with her husband pastor Joshua Hilmy since November 2016, are pleading with the Malaysian authorities to help locate her. Ruth’s sister, Ram Ram Elisabeth, said Ruth is a responsible and caring person, and she would always respond to their […]

(Church in Chains) — Christian rights activist Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi has been badly beaten and strip searched and is being detained in the notorious Qarchak women’s prison. A former Muslim, she has chosen to be known as Mary since her conversion. Mary, 21, was arrested on Jan. 12 near Azadi Square in Tehran during protests […]