(Evangelical Focus) — The European Union has announced its ambitious plan to “protect LGBTIQ people” across the Union, which will include sanctions against countries that are not perceived as respecting their rights. In September’s State of the Union debate, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had hinted that the issue would […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS San Francisco) — Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed regret Friday for attending a birthday party at an exclusive Wine Country restaurant last week, ignoring his own state’s advisories on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The San Francisco Chronicle broke the news earlier Friday that the governor attended the Nov. 6 50th birthday party […]
(Article18) — Twelve Christian homes were raided by intelligence agents on Wednesday in a coordinated operation in Fardis, west of Tehran, at around 9am. None of the Christians were arrested, but many of their personal belongings were confiscated – including phones, laptops, Bibles, Christian literature and anything else to do with Christianity – and they […]
(The Christian Institute) — A Christian councilor has been cleared of any wrongdoing for opposing the use of public money to promote LGBT ideology. Mary Douglas was forced to step down from her role at Wiltshire Council in November 2019 after she voiced opposition to the use of public funds to promote a “gay pride” […]
India (International Christian Concern) – On Nov. 4, five Christians were brutally attacked by radical Hindu nationalists in the Meerpet neighborhood of Hyderabad, India. The attack resulted in the Christian victims sustained multiple injuries. According to Pastor Steven Hanok, a 50-year-old Christian woman named Sadhya invited several members of the church, including Pastor Hanok, to […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Islamic militants turned a village football pitch in northern Mozambique into an execution ground where they beheaded more than 50 people during three days of savage violence between Friday, Nov. 6 and Sunday, Nov. 8. Villagers who tried to flee were caught and taken to the sports ground in Muatide village where […]
(Evangelical Focus) — 182 Baptist delegates from all over Norway recently met near Oslo Airport defying the coronavirus threat in order to handle a heated situation in the church union over disagreements on same-sex “marriage.” The final outcome is yet to be seen, but the process within the union might lead to the exclusion of […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria on Friday (Nov. 6) and the next day kidnapped seven persons, including five daughters of a church pastor, according to a local advocacy group. Surviving witnesses in Kaduna state’s Dande village, part of Kasaya in Chikun County, described the killers as armed Fulani […]
(Yahoo News) — During the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated arguments over the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, the signal from the high court was that President Obama’s healthcare law may largely be safe. Both Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh — one of whom would almost surely be needed to strike down the entirety of […]
(The Christian Institute) — LGBT activist Jayne Ozanne has accused the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) of homophobia for affirming the Bible’s teaching on sexual morality. Ozanne, a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, praised an article in the student newspaper The Oxford Student, which criticized OICCU over its biblical position on sexual […]