(Evangelical Focus) — On Sunday, suicide bombers killed and injured hundreds during Easter services and at luxury hotels across Sri Lanka. Although the official death toll had reached 359 by Thursday, the Sri Lankan government later revised that figure down to 253. One of the locations attacked was the evangelical Zion Church of Batticaloa, where […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Wednesday, April 17, Fulani militants launched an attack on Bolon village, a predominantly Christian village in Demsa Local Council Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. The attackers struck at approximately 10:30 p.m., firing gunshots sporadically. When the dust settled, four people were killed and […]
(Morning Star News) – Police in Nepal seized four Christians at a hotel, including a woman from the United States, early Tuesday morning (April 23) on false allegations of conversion by allurement, sources said. Police from Dang Deukhuri District Police Headquarters in Ghorahi charged into the Hotel Doko in Ghorahi at 7 a.m. and detained […]
(The Times of Israel) — My story begins with the destruction of my village Taweelah in North Darfur. Like so many villages in Darfur, it was destroyed by the Janjaweed, a group of militants armed up by the Sudanese government and known for riding into a village, killing the men and raping the women, and […]
(Yahoo News/National Review) — Five employees of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have quit a controversial NHS transgender-therapy clinic, citing fears that children are being misdiagnosed as transgender and given harmful and irreversible hormone treatments. The five former clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service, which is based in London and Leeds, expressed their concerns […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 17 Christians who had gathered after a baby dedication at a church in central Nigeria, including the mother of the child, sources said. Safaratu John Kabiru Ali, the mother of the baby, was slain in the attack on Sunday (April 14) in Konshu-Numa village, in Nasarawa state’s […]
SHANGRAO, Jiangxi (ChinaAid) — Since September, authorities in an area of China’s eastern Jiangxi province have carried out a sweeping crackdown on Christianity, destroying the crosses of 25 churches and imposing various measures in order to keep a tight rein on religious activities. Religious affairs and United Front Work Department officials started collecting information on […]
(International Christian Concern) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on April 8, three American Christians were detained by police in Laos as they visited villages north of Muang Sing in the Luang Namtha province. Wayne, Autumn, and Joseph were volunteering with the US-based Christian non-profit organization Vision Beyond Borders (VBB) at the time of […]
BEIJING (ChinaAid) — An American pastor serving a life sentence in China is begging his family to secure his release. David Lin, a Chinese American pastor, was placed under house arrest in China in 2006, when he tried to gain government permission to run a ministry within China. He was subsequently jailed, and authorities then […]
(CNN/Fox 59) — The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis. Researchers used publicly available data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, administered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]