Laos (Mission Network News) — The freedom to meet with members of the Body of Christ is at risk in Laos. A new law requires all religious meetings must first get approval from multiple government offices. Laos’ Prime Minister signed this Decree on Associations in August 2017. According to The Voice of the Martyrs, approval […]
(The Christian Institute) — Marmite has sparked criticism for launching a “spread love not hate” jar with a percentage of proceeds going to Stonewall. The Unilever-owned brand is donating up to £5,000 to the organization. On Twitter, one user asked, “Why is it deemed as hate to have a different opinion?,” while a Christian Institute […]
ZHONGDIAN, Henan (China Aid) — Shi Xinping, leader of a house church in the city of Zongdian within Henan Province’s Qi County, received an administrative penalty notice and a fine of 50,000 yuan, which amounts to approximately $7,500. Authorities from the the ethnic and religious affairs committee in Henan Province’s Qi County have accused Shi of […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – An Assemblies of God Nigerian pastor, his wife and son were among at least 218 people killed in Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian areas near Jos on June 23-25, a denominational leader said. Two days after the general superintendent of the AG-Nigeria denomination, Pastor Chidi Okoroafor, reported the deaths […]
(The Christian Institute) — Alcohol-related deaths for adults have risen for the fourth year in a row in Scotland, according to new figures. Figures released by NHS Health Scotland revealed an average of 22 deaths a week due to alcohol misuse in 2016—more than two and a half times the number for 1981. Experts have […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A Mexican pastor interviewed last year by World Watch Monitor was shot dead earlier this month in another exhibition of lawlessness in the troubled city of Juarez, which is just across the border from El Paso, Texas. Eduardo ‘Lalo’ Garcia was shot at least six times on 8 June, as he […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Falsely accused of running a brothel, a badly beaten pastor in Tamil Nadu state jumped out of a moving car to save himself from Hindu extremists who were threatening to kill him. The hard-line Hindu mob had attacked pastor Jayaseelan Natarajan on June 20 as he and his son visited their […]
MANILA (Channel NewsAsia) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced growing outrage on Tuesday (June 26) in his largely Catholic nation after calling God “stupid,” the latest furor he has sparked with an unfiltered broadside. Duterte took aim at the biblical creation story during a speech, raising the question of why God would create Adam and […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Five members of a Baptist church in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi were detained and fined for meeting without state permission, without hearing the exact charges, reports Forum 18. Police also raided the homes of two Baptists, Khamid and Ziyatullo Rakhmonov (not related), on May 23, and took them to […]
(The Christian Institute) — Up to 650 people died at a hospital on the south coast of England due to an institutional culture which hastened death and undermined the sanctity of life, a major report has found. The review into Gosport War Memorial Hospital, led by the former Bishop of Liverpool, found 456 patients were […]