GENEVA (World Watch Monitor) — The daughter of jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson appealed to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva last week to help secure her father’s release from prison in Turkey, where he has been jailed for the past 17 months. Declaring that her father had been “falsely imprisoned for far […]
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (Fox News) — A Florida teenager—who had previously been investigated for “alleged violent tendencies”—watched jihadist videos and read the Koran “to give him courage” before stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring two others at a birthday sleepover Monday, cops said. Corey Johnson, 17, was charged with first-degree murder […]
(Open Doors USA) — The last thing 17-year-old Esther remembers seeing the day her world turned upside down was her father’s collapsed body lying lifeless on the ground. Before that October day, Esther and her father lived a pretty simple life after her mother passed away. She attended school and took care of her ailing […]
Iran (Mission Network News) – We’ve been hearing how the Church in Iran is the fastest growing church in the world. But the shape of the Church is actually underground and in the form of numerous, individual house churches—and the Iranian government wants to shut them down. Church Growth Despite Challenges Ironically, the Iranian government […]
BERLIN (Associated Press) — German prosecutors said Monday they were notified that a former Nazi death camp guard dubbed the “Accountant of Auschwitz” died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence. Hannover prosecutor Kathrin Soefker said a lawyer informed her office that Oskar Groening, 96, died Friday in a hospital. The office is awaiting […]
(Inside Edition) — A 9-month-old baby has been rescued after she was found in the middle of the street in upstate New York. In a heart-wrenching video taken by a bystander, the small baby can be seen crying as she lies in the middle of the road by herself. Eventually, a stranger picks up the distressed baby. […]
(Morning Star News) — In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a suspended prison sentence under a law that prohibits causing Muslims to doubt their religion, sources said. In Frenda, Tiaret Province, Nordine B. was ordered to pay a […]
(ABC News) — Howard Burack always knew he was adopted. “I grew up in a nice, upper-middle-class family in a nice, suburban area north of New York City, in Rockland County, and normal childhood, normal whatever, great parents,” said Burack, who was born in 1963. He told ABC News’ “20/20” that his parents adopted him […]
(The Christian Institute) — Freedom of religion is under attack in the UK today from “aggressive secularists” and the religiously illiterate, a Christian MP has said. Fiona Bruce made the statement during a debate on freedom of religion and belief in Westminster Hall. The debate was led by Jim Shannon MP, chairman of the All-Party […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Six pastors have been arrested and accused of “masterminding” a ploy to disobey the Rwandan government’s order to shut down over 700 churches in one province. The pastors were alleged to have held “illegal meetings with bad intentions,” the BBC reported. The churches in the central province of Kigali were ordered […]