(CNN) — A prominent gay rights attorney who led lawsuits legalizing same-sex marriage set himself on fire in Brooklyn on Saturday morning in a fatal plea for action on issues related to the environment. The body of David S. Buckel, 60, was found near Prospect Park’s baseball fields about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday after a […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Fox News) — A kindhearted waitress whips up fresh meals for the homeless in her community and says she has dished out 75,000 dinners from her own kitchen. Granny Gloria Lewis, 54, spends her weekends making 225 fresh dinners and 180 breakfasts from her two-stove, four-fridge kitchen after years of living on […]
UBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A court in Omdurman, Sudan on Wednesday (April 11) charged four Christians who defended church property from a takeover by a Muslim business interest, sources said. Azhari Tumbara, Muna Matta, George Adam and Kudi Abderhman last year tried to keep authorities from seizing Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) property in […]
(Sci News) — The 1.5-cm (0.6 inch) bronze coins are well preserved, probably because they were in use for a short time. “The coins were left behind by Jewish residents who hid in a large cave for four years (66-70 BC) — from the Roman siege of Jerusalem, up until the destruction of the Second […]
(The Christian Institute) — Ealing Council’s ban on peaceful pro-life campaigners has been described as a “sad day for women.” Councillors voted unanimously to introduce the UK’s first ever abortion clinic Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), in a move celebrated as “a landmark decision” by pro-abortion campaigners. Pro-lifers have spoken out against the council’s decision. […]
(ABC News) — A pastor at an Illinois church that serves more than 25,000 worshipers at eight locations stepped down more than six months ahead of his scheduled retirement amid allegations of inappropriate behavior with parishioners. Bill Hybels, founder of the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, resigned on Tuesday after an internal investigation […]
UK (Mission Network News) — For God, there is no individual who isn’t worth the trouble, nor any people group too large for Him to chase after. This truth played out when a random Chinese Bible was discovered in a Biblica office in Europe. The Bible was from old stock. Not knowing what else to […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A hard-line Hindu has confessed to attempting to murder a pastor in southern India as the Christian leader was praying at night, according to police. Pastor Madira Koti Reddy, who leads a house church in Rentachintala village, Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh state, on March 29 had gone to his room […]
Beijing (AsiaNews/AP) – Scores of missionaries risk their lives every day on the border between China and North Korea to spread the Gospel and help North Koreans. Most of them are South Koreans, but some are ethnic Korean who have lived in China for generations. Their lives are permanently at risk. In recent years, ten […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday. Groups and political leaders working to end forced prostitution and child exploitation celebrated the shutdown of Backpage, a massive […]