(UCA News) — A right-wing Hindu parliamentarian’s bid to drive Christian missionaries out of India is being branded as a political ploy ahead of polls in three key Indian states. Parliamentarian Rakesh Sinha, who advocates turning India a Hindu nation, in a Sept. 27 newspaper interview accused Christian missionaries of damaging Indian culture. “It is […]
Kenya (Mission Network News) — The Rendille people in Kenya are historically an animist, nomadic people group. The people group of about 75,000 live off the land in northern Kenya and their animals. “They worship the earth, and the animals, and their ancestors,” World Mission’s Greg Kelley says. The Rendille people are surrounded by Muslim […]
Congo (Mission Network News/Mission Aviation Fellowship) — As the refugee crisis drags on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), it is making fewer and fewer headlines. However, the crisis is far from over. Hundreds of thousands of people in the DRC are displaced because of terrible violence in the east. Some of it […]
VALENCIA (Evangelical Focus) — A woman was injured as dozens of passengers tried to escape a subway train in Valencia, Spain when they confused a group of Christian preachers with Islamic terrorists. The group of nine German evangelists, members of the Christian group “Werde-Licht” (in German: “Become a light”) visited the city of Valencia […]
TORONTO — A Canadian man who was among a half dozen professing Christians who dressed in skin-tight green spandex with rainbow accents to disguise themselves as the “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association” in order to infiltrate the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade is facing a hate crime charge for distributing “zombie safe sex” pamphlets that turned […]
Mexico (Mission Network News) — Sometimes, sharing the Gospel is as easy as making an announcement. Take a distributor in Mexico working with World Missionary Press. The distributor has been operating in Mexico for several years now. “He started out just going across the border from the US just going back and forth and back […]
(The Himalayan Times) — The government has deported two foreigners to their respective countries on charges of forceful religious conversion, which is a crime in Nepal. Philippine national De Vera Richard and his Indonesian wife Rita Gonga, who were staying in Nepal on the business visa, allegedly converted Nepali Hindus to Christianity. The two, who […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Yahoo News) — Jeremiah, 10, sees his predicament with wisdom and clarity beyond his years: Time is running out for him to be adopted, and if a family doesn’t come along soon, he may never leave the group home where he says some of the other kids have beat him up. The […]
JERUSALEM — Delegates from a gathering of Anglicans from around the world, known as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), have released an open letter committing to “defend the gospel against threats from without and within,” and calling upon others to do so as well. The letter notes that in these modern times, there are not only […]
Mexico (Mission Network News) — Alcoholism, family struggles, and a stale understanding of the Bible were all rampant in the mountains near Oaxaca, Mexico just a few weeks ago. And that’s exactly where Jim Loker and his team went. “We were in an area where the people were very hard-hearted,” Loker said. “It was a […]