(The Christian Institute) — New guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) advises searching the old online content of patients on life-support to see if they want to die. The BMA said that emails and social media posts could contain evidence that a seriously ill patient would prefer not to live with a disease or […]
(International Christian Concern) – Ayub Maate was a Muslim before he converted to Christianity. He practiced his faith daily, even sounding the trumpet three times a day, which would call fellow Muslims to prayer. However, in 2011, his mother heard the Good News and believed in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. His father, […]
Jordan (Mission Network News) — Four new believers in Jordan just took an unprecedented step of faith: they were baptized. “It was just a beautiful, beautiful ceremony,” shares Samuel of Redemptive Stories. “They each got up and told their stories about how they had come to faith in Christ. We worshipped together and then had […]
(The Christian Institute) — June Whitfield, who died last week aged 93, used her final interview to criticize modern television, saying there’s “too much sex and swearing.” The actress, best known for her roles in “Absolutely Fabulous” and “Terry and June,” made the comments in an interview on BBC Radio Sussex just days before her […]
(Morning Star News) – The official notice that a village pastor in Algeria received on Sunday (Dec. 30) confirmed what he had heard – his church had been ordered to close. Pastor Rabah Messaoudi had won a legal battle in 2017 after local officials in the Muslim country tried to close his church in Ait-Jimaa […]
(NBC News) — Apple has removed from its online store a religious app accused of portraying being gay as an “addiction,” “sickness,” and “sin” after a national gay rights organization petitioned to have it pulled. Truth Wins Out, which says it fights “anti-gay religious extremism,” launched a petition urging Apple to remove the app by […]
(Winston-Salem Journal) — A Clemmons pastor who was killed in a Catawba County crash Thursday afternoon is remembered for his gentle spirit. Scott Randolph Hammett Jr., 59, of Clemmons, was driving back to Forsyth County from a vacation with his family. About 12:15 p.m., his Honda Accord ran off Interstate 40 east in Conover and […]
JENKINS, Ky. (Baptist Press) — Bessie and Lester McPeek are known throughout eastern Kentucky as Diaper Lady and Diaper Man. They wouldn’t want it any other way. The McPeeks, married for 24 years, started a unique diaper distribution and parent education ministry in Jenkins, Ky., in 2001. Since then, they have given away more than […]
(Morning Star News) – In 24 hours earlier this month, a convert to Christianity in eastern Uganda lost his livelihood, wife and children to irate relatives and other Muslims, sources said. In Masaba village, Sironko District, a leader of the village mosque on Dec. 7 led a mob to Muhamud Gusolo’s banana plantation and destroyed […]
(The Daily Wire) — British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced this week that he has ordered the creation of a new commission to investigate the persecution of Christians worldwide and how England can work to relieve the issue. Bishop of Truro, Philip Mounstephen, has been tasked with leading the new group. … In an op-ed […]