(ABC News) — The island of Puerto Rico has been “destroyed” after Hurricane Maria made landfall there as a Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, according to emergency officials. Puerto Rico’s office of emergency management confirmed that 100 percent of the U.S. territory had lost power, noting that anyone with electricity was using a generator. Multiple […]
(ACLJ) — Christian South Sudanese refugee children are denied food in Sudan’s refugee camps unless they recite Islamic prayers. The U.S. Department of State includes three nations on its “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list. Sudan is one of them, along with Syria and Iran. Sudan was designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1993. Countries on this list are “determined […]
SHANGQUI, Henan (ChinaAid) — Officials in China’s central Henan province closed down a Christian-run institution dedicated to bringing children up with good morals, saying its religious component “brainwashed” its students, ChinaAid learned recently. Ms. Zhu, a Christian woman, told a ChinaAid reporter on Sept. 14 that national security officers arrived at her house in July […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A 21-year-old Malaysian man has been arrested on suspicion of planning to attack non-Muslims and their places of worship, having reportedly been ordered to do so from Islamic State militants in Syria. The man, who was not named, “received instructions from a Malaysian Da’esh [IS] member in Syria to buy a […]
(Gospel Coalition) — On Saturday, September 16, 2017, Nabeel Qureshi, age 34, entered into the joy of his master, Jesus Christ, after enduring a yearlong battle with cancer. … As a Christian apologist with a special focus on Islam, Nabeel was often introduced as a “former Muslim.” He felt ambivalence about the label, wondering if he […]
(The Christian Institute) — A couple who resigned from a National Trust property because they refused to wear gay pride badges say they have been blacklisted from volunteering. Bob and Linda Gates resigned from Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, having worked there for 14 years. When they applied to volunteer at Blickling Hall, a nearby National […]
(USA Today) — Barbuda has been left completely devastated by Hurricane Irma. An estimated 95% of Barbuda’s structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated. “The damage is complete,” says Ambassador Ronald Sanders, who has served as Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the U.S. since 2015. “For the first […]
(The Telegraph) — The majority of Church of England Christians don’t read the Bible, the church’s own polling has revealed. Figures show that 60 percent of self-declared followers of the Church admit they never read the Bible, and 36 percent say they never attend church. One in three said they never pray. The figures produced […]
(BBC) — When so-called Islamic State announced on June 8 that it had killed a Chinese man and woman in their mid-twenties in Pakistan’s most volatile province, many would have assumed they were two of the thousands of workers that Beijing has sent to the country in the last few years. China is investing more […]
CHENGDU, Sichuan (ChinaAid) — Chinese authorities barred a pastor from traveling to Hong Kong to attend a Christian training conference today, echoing a growing trend that keeps church leaders from participating in overseas religious meetings. At 6:00 a.m. on Sept. 12, Wang Yi, a pastor of Autumn Rain Blessing Church, and Jiang Rong, a pastor’s […]