(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 […]
(Yahoo News UK) — Hundreds of people in a South African town have admitted eating human flesh. The shocking revelation came to light at a community meeting following the arrests of four men in the area for killing a woman and eating her body. Nino Mbatha, Sthembiso Sithole, Lindokuhle Masondo and Lungisani Magubane were charged […]
PANCHKULA, India (Reuters) — Violent protests erupted in India’s Haryana state on Friday, killing at least 29 people, after a court convicted a self-styled “godman” of raping two women, angering thousands of his supporters who said he was innocent, the state chief minister said. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the head of a social welfare and spiritual […]
(The Christian Institute) — The prime minister of Canada has called on the Republic of Ireland to radically overhaul its pro-life laws, as he called abortion a “human right.” Justin Trudeau made the extraordinary comments during a discussion with his Irish counterpart—Prime Minister Leo Varadkar—currently in the country on an official visit. Canada has one […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Three Kenyan Christians were hacked to death by Al-Shabaab militants on Friday night (Aug. 18) after they refused to recite the Islamic prayer of faith. A fourth Christian—the mentally challenged older brother of one of the three—was also killed. At around 9pm, Changawa Muthemba, who was in his forties, was dragged […]