(National Geographic) — Evidence for the largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in the Americas— and likely in world history—has been discovered on Peru’s northern coast, archaeologists tell National Geographic. More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on […]
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – The Burma (Myanmar) military in April bombed predominantly Christian, ethnic Kachin civilians and restricted aid to displaced villagers trapped in the wilds, sources said. Burma government forces fired artillery and dropped bombs on Awng Lawt village in mid-April near the northern town of Tanai, Kachin state, sending 2,000 villagers […]
(BreakingNews.ie) — A coroner has criticized “repeated failures” at a high-profile abortion clinic following the death of a mother of one, hours after she had her baby aborted. Dr. Sean Cummings said the case involving Aisha Chithira, 31, who traveled to England from Ireland to have a termination at a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, was “desperately […]
(Mission Network News) — May is National Foster Care Month, which is “a time to recognize that we each can play a part in enhancing the lives of children and youth in foster care,” the Children’s Bureau says. While National Foster Care Month focuses on the foster children in America, millions of children worldwide are […]
(World Watch Monitor) — An elderly pastor in southern India has been found dead days after complaining to the police about a sum of money missing from his bank account. Neighbors of Vunnam Daniel, 65, from Tenali Mandal village in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, alerted police after they heard his mobile phone constantly […]
XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Officials from a local religious affairs bureau and ministry of education in China’s eastern Fujian conducted a two-hour investigation of a kindergarten established by a local church on April 16. The kindergarten, which wishes to remain anonymous to avoid further scrutiny, was established by a church in Xiamen. On the morning […]
(The Christian Institute) — Supporters of Ashers Baking Company have turned out in the hundreds at Christian Institute meetings this week. Over 1,500 people came to events across Northern Ireland ahead of next week’s Supreme Court hearing in Belfast. Judges in the UK’s highest court will decide whether Ashers broke the law when it politely […]
DETROIT, Mich. (CBS News) — Early Tuesday morning, police in Detroit received a call that there was a man threatening to kill himself by jumping off an overpass above Interstate 696. As several local law enforcement agencies rushed to the scene with negotiators, police came up with an unexpected plan to safeguard against the worst-case […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Authorities in Algeria’s north-eastern city of Tizi-Ouzou, in the Kabylie region, have closed down a day care center for Christian children. The Early Childhood Home was established more than 10 years ago by Église Protestante du Plein Évangile (The Full Gospel Protestant Church), also known by its French acronym EPPETO. EPPETO […]
(International Christian Concern) – Chensingh Vasunia, a 26-year-old pastor, was forced to flee his village of Kondri, located in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, after a series of devastating attacks by Hindu radicals on his home and church. Beginning on March 16, the attacks left two of Pastor Chensingh’s church members seriously injured and his house […]