VENTURA, Calif. (KTLA-TV) — A 30-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after threatening to kill a protester outside a Ventura Planned Parenthood, police said. The incident was reported about 8:40 a.m. at the facility in the 5400 block of Ralston Street, according to the Ventura Police Department. Brandon Beechum was accompanying a “female companion” to the […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (National Post) — A severe food shortage has deteriorated into a famine in two counties in South Sudan, the government and United Nations announced Monday, with 100,000 people facing starvation. Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Program in South Sudan, called the famine “man-made,” blaming it on political turmoil in a country […]
(UPI) — The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram recruited 2,000 children to fight in 2016, a United Nations report released Tuesday said. The data were part of a report indicating that at least 65,000 children, worldwide, were released from military and armed groups in the past 10 years. An estimated 17,000 children were recruited in […]
(Metro) — Children as young as five are ringing a helpline to hear bedtime stories because their alcoholic parents are too intoxicated. Some of the youngsters call the counsellors at the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa) so regularly their favourite story books are kept by the phones. According to a parliamentary group there […]
(World Watch Monitor) — The man charged with killing 39 people on New Year’s Eve at Istanbul’s exclusive Reina nightclub attack, Abdulkadir Masharipov, has testified before a Turkish court, saying, “My purpose was to kill Christians.” The Uzbek national was arraigned in court 11 Feb., nearly a month after he was captured by Istanbul police […]
(The Christian Institute) — A national landmark representing one million answered Christian prayers is set to be built in the UK. The Wall of Answered Prayer will be built with a million bricks, each representing a prayer believed to have been answered by God. The monument will be exclusively Christian rather than a multi-faith wall. […]
(The Christian Institute) — Expectant parents can now see their child in the womb in incredible detail thanks to a technological breakthrough. While ultrasound has been commonplace in maternity clinics since the 1980s, a new MRI scan captures footage of the unborn child in clear, high-quality imaging. The technique has come to the public’s attention […]
DRC (Mission Network News) — Over one-third of the population in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is illiterate, according to The Joshua Project. Which means for this portion of the population, their main method of gathering and sharing information is through oral methods. And for the purpose of sharing the Gospel, audio methods […]
(Christian Institute) — Fathers should be seen as a “crucial pillar” for children and not a “dispensable extra,” a think-tank has warned. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said the “throwaway culture” in relationships means that people quickly give up if problems occur. Andy Cook, the CSJ’s chief executive, also said the “meteoric rise in […]
(Politico) — Health insurance giant Humana on Tuesday said it will quit Obamacare’s insurance markets altogether, announcing it will stop selling individual coverage in 2018. The decision makes Humana the first major insurer to fully exit Obamacare amid uncertainty about the GOP’s undefined health care plans. Other major insurers said they could also withdraw from […]