(The Christian Institute) — Over 700 babies were born addicted to drugs in Scotland over the past five years, new figures have shown. The number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)—caused by exposure to addictive opiate drugs in the womb—varied across a number of different health boards. The Scottish government has described the […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram (Jai Sri Ram)!” “I remained mum,” pastor Harjot Singh Sethi, 26, told Morning Star News. “I did […]
(New York Times) — Louise Hay, who from a 1984 best seller built a self-help publishing empire that has attracted millions of devotees with its messages about the power of thought and attitude, died on Wednesday at her home in San Diego. She was 90. Her death was announced on the website of her company, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — About 20% of Germans would wish to have more political representatives who have a Christian faith. According to a survey published by the German news agency Idea ahead of the general election in September, another 49% of Germans disagree and express no interest in the increase of Christian political representatives. The survey asked 2,034 […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Since 2007, abortion is legal in Mexico City – in all other cities it is allowed under certain circumstances. In Mexico the right to life is guaranteed but it is not specified when the citizen has access to this right. Under these circumstances, the unborn in Mexico City only have a right […]
(PBS NewsHour) — The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday. Eighty-three children have been used as “human bombs” since the start of 2017. Fifty-five were girls, and 27 were boys, UNICEF […]
Jordan (Mission Network News) — With neighbors like Syria and Iraq, you wouldn’t expect Jordan to stay stable, let alone represent a safe haven for fleeing refugees. Yet according to Rama Haddadin, Project Coordinator at the Jordanian Bible Society, Jordanian believers are making sure they can provide exactly that. “When they first came to Jordan, […]
(Daily Caller) — Women’s Health published a feature story recently about a woman who claimed she wasn’t prepared for the “ungodly mental anguish” she experienced after undergoing an abortion. Kassi Underwood, author of “May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment,” wrote that she had dreamed about a joyful first pregnancy, but instead found herself paying […]
(The Christian Institute) — A couple has shared the incredible story of how they rejected abortion and chose life for their son after he was diagnosed with spina bifida. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, Catherine and Paul Harper were told that their son Benjamin was unlikely to be able to walk, and may be born […]
(World Watch Monitor) — After a period of relative calm, the Far North region of Cameroon, along the Nigerian border, has witnessed an upsurge of attacks by Boko Haram in recent days. On Aug. 17, a church elder was killed in a night raid carried out by the radical Islamist group on Moskota village. Adamu […]