(The Christian Institute) — A little-known Swiss diplomat has been credited with leading the largest civilian rescue operation of the Second World War. Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul to Budapest, is thought to have saved more than 62,000 Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis. Lutz is said to have been motivated by […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Last summer, Madrid became the centre of global LGBT Pride celebrations. For several weeks, parades, demonstrations and political commitments to promote gender ideology were made. Now the LGBT lobby in the city will also disseminate its agenda among children in the traditional “Three Wise Men” parade, the equivalent of Santa Claus in […]
KANO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her adult daughter face kidnapping charges filed to pressure them into following the family patriarch’s conversion to Islam, sources said. Amina Isa, 40, of Kano state’s Gidan Kuran village in Tudun Wada Local Government Area, told Morning Star News that her husband left Christianity to […]
LONDON (Reuters) — Drinking alcohol produces a harmful chemical in the body which can lead to permanent genetic damage in the DNA of stem cells, increasing the risk of cancer developing, according to research published on Wednesday. Working with mice in a laboratory, British scientists used chromosome analysis and DNA sequencing to examine the genetic damage […]
(NBC News) — Some Californians raised “blunts,” cut ribbons and endured long, early morning lines outside marijuana dispensaries to show their love for the state’s recreational pot law, which went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Monday. At Berkeley Patients Group, which billed itself as the country’s longest-running medical pot dispensary, the number of daily […]
BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling. Oskar Groening, known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for his job counting cash taken from the […]
(The Daily Mail) — It has long been advertised as the antidote to the anxieties and stresses of modern living. But mindfulness could be making people more selfish, an expert psychiatrist has claimed. Dr. Alison Gray, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said meditating makes easier for people to start over-analyzing their life, becoming “inward-looking […]
(Middle East Concern) — Algerian Christians request prayer following several incidents in which churches and individual Christians have faced increased restrictions, raising concerns that these pressures signal a coordinated campaign of intensified action against churches by the governing authorities. Three believers were arrested in Chlef, 200 km north-west of Algiers, during the third week of […]
EZHOU, Hubei (China Aid) — A persecuted church in China’s central Hubei province is meeting on the streets and meeting in church members’ homes after their landlord refused to renew their lease. Earlier this year, Yanji Christian Church began meeting outside when government officials prohibited them from entering their building. On several occasions, people hired by […]
(The Christian Institute) — All transsexual prisoners should be released, children should be allowed unrestricted access to hormone blockers and birth certificates should be banned, transsexual campaigners are demanding. In its manifesto, the Edinburgh chapter of the national Action for Trans Health (ATH) group, which has previously called for “radical violence,” said: “This is war, […]