LONDON (The Christian Institute) — Tesco has come under fire for a joint promotion with confectionary brand Skittles to celebrate Pride in London—a homosexual rights festival. All-white packets of Skittles are being sold in stores across the UK alongside explanatory text which reads: “During Pride, only one rainbow matters. So we’ve given ours up to […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Pakistan has ordered a South Korean man to leave the country, accusing him of involvement in “illegal preaching activities” after two of his students at an Urdu-language school were abducted and killed by the Islamic State group, which claimed they had been secretly preaching Christianity. “Investigations have revealed that [Juan Won-seo] […]
(Yahoo News) A man who wore shorts to work—despite the dress code banning them—refused to accept his boss’s order to to put on pants. Instead, Joey Barge had something else in mind. For the heatwave in the United Kingdom (with temperatures climbing to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit), the 20-year-old opted to wear “smart” navy shorts […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) — The family of a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence in North Korea is concerned for his welfare after the death of an American student who was imprisoned there. They want Canada to work harder to secure his release, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Hyeon Soo Lim, who served at one of […]
HUAIBEI, Anhui (ChinaAid) — The local government in China’s eastern Anhui province dispatched more than 10 officers to the home of an incarcerated church pastor on June 14 and searched it, confiscating important materials. Wang Hong, the wife of Caili Church pastor Chen Shixin, told a ChinaAid reporter that group of more than 10 public […]
(The Christian Institute) — The new Republic of Ireland Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, has admitted he is attempting to pressure the DUP into legalizing same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. Varadkar, who is homosexual, met with DUP leader Arlene Foster last week in Dublin to discuss the effects of Brexit and power sharing at Stormont. His […]
(Fox News) — Funeral plans have been set for Otto Warmbier, the college student who died Monday nearly a week after his return to the U.S. from North Korea where he was detained for 17 months. His funeral service is scheduled for Thursday at 9 a.m. at Wyoming High School in Wyoming, Ohio, Fox 19 […]
(Newsweek) — Arrests of radical Islamist suspects in the European Union rose for the third year in a row, almost doubling in two years, with women and children more involved in plots, according to a new report released by Europol. Europe’s law enforcement agency said that police across the EU arrested 718 jihadi suspects in […]
JIANGMEN, Guangdong (ChinaAid) — Incarcerated Christians endured harsh interrogations in China’s southern Guangdong province this week, during which officials ordered them to confess that they had participated in an “evil cult,” a charge often levied against Christians for their church activities. On June 12, authorities stalked Ruan Haonan, a member of Fengle Church who hosts […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Two-year-old Anita Sihotang cannot bear the sound of her father’s motorbike because it reminds her of the noise of the explosion last November, when a petrol bomb was thrown into a church park where children were playing, killing one child and seriously injuring Anita and two four-year-olds. Whenever her father turns […]