JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A judge in Sudan on Sunday (Jan. 29) sentenced Czech aid worker Petr Jasek to life in prison and two other Christians to prison terms of 12 years on charges related to “espionage,” a defense attorney said. “Petr Jasek was imprisoned for life,” attorney Muhanad Nur told Morning Star […]
(Daily Post) — The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), 19 Northern states, yesterday said over 900 churches have been lost to Boko haram terrorism in the North east. It therefore urged the Federal Government to rebuild the churches and also re-establish Nigeria Inter Religion Council (NIREC) with a view to curbing […]
(Reuters) — Norway’s Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favor of new ceremonial language that will allow its pastors to conduct same-sex marriages, bringing it into line with several other mainstream Protestant denominations abroad. Last April the annual conference of the Church—to which nearly three quarters of Norwegians said in 2015 they belonged—backed the principle […]
(Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda and eight other Christians are missing two weeks after a Muslim mob attacked a church prayer meeting, locked the congregation in, beat several members and raped 15 women, sources said. The approximately 90 Muslims broke into the evening prayer meeting of Katira Church of Uganda, in […]
(The Scottish Sun) — A female Dutch doctor who drugged an elderly euthanasia patient and then gave her a lethal injection despite her fighting not to be killed has been cleared. The medic allegedly put the drug in the woman’s coffee in order to calm her but she later awoke as she was being injected. The […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The Gutenberg Bible, preserved in the National Library of France (BnF), can be consulted online at Gallica, the institution’s digital library. “The two copies preserved in the BnF can now be consulted in Gallica. A summary have been added, to make the navigation of the biblical text more comfortable and to satisfy […]
LINCOLN, Neb. (Associated Press) — A Nebraska state legislator known for his blunt, occasionally offensive manner, who was fined for having cybersex using a state computer, resigned Wednesday after he retweeted a comment that implied participants at a women’s march were too unattractive to be sexually assaulted. Republican Sen. Bill Kintner announced at a news […]
(The Independent) — The Netherlands is seeking to set up an overseas abortion fund to counteract Donald Trump’s recent ban against funding international groups which give women information about terminations. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen for the Dutch government has announced she intends to establish an international fund which would finance […]
(The Christian Institute) — Thousands of Scottish teenagers have been treated for drink or drug related abuse, new figures have revealed. Figures obtained by STV News found that more than 4,000 teens required care or were referred to substance abuse services during the past four years. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde reported the highest number […]
(Christian Institute) — An American mother has shared the remarkable story of how she rejected abortion after seeing her baby’s heartbeat on an ultrasound. Daria wrote about her experience in a blog post and admitted it was not the first time that she had been pregnant, as she had an abortion during her teenage years. […]