LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) – Shelley Shellenberger sits in a chair by the window in his Landis Homes apartment, wrapping strands of yarn around the pegs of a Knifty Knitter loom. After he has wrapped enough yarn and used a hook to pull the colorful strands together and back up over the pegs many times, a […]
(The Christian Institute) — Twins given a one in ten chance of surviving when they were born at 23 weeks have recently celebrated their first birthday. Rylea and her sister Robyn were born prematurely after their mother, Claire Cunliffe, contracted an infection and went into early labour in November 2015. Claire was devastated when she […]
(The Christian Institute) — U.K. couples will be able to file for divorce online this year if a controversial new project goes ahead. Government ministers are drafting a pilot scheme which will allow divorce proceedings to be initiated over the internet for the first time, in order to save time and paperwork. The move was […]
(BBC News) — The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby. She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria’s military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks. A total of 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko […]
(ChinaAid) — A Christian human rights defender is in need of urgent cancer treatment that she cannot afford after a Chinese medical team canceled a critical operation. Huang Yan, a 47-year-old Christian woman who has assisted many prisoners of conscience, including Gao Zhisheng, was refused a necessary operation for her ovarian cancer, despite previously having […]
(The Christian Institute) — Ireland’s publicly-funded broadcaster has been issued with an official warning by broadcasting authorities for repeated pro-abortion bias on one of its flagship radio shows. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) issued the warning to RTÉ, which receives funding from TV license fee payers in the country. Pro-life groups have welcomed the […]
(Christian Times) — A Turkish court has denied the appeal for release of an American pastor who was imprisoned for allegedly being a member of an armed terrorist organization. Pastor Andrew Brunson was initially detained with his wife, Norine, on Oct. 7 in the coastal city of Izmir. The couple, who have been living in Turkey […]
(Associated Press) — An upscale New Jersey town violated anti-discrimination laws by insisting that a proposed mosque have more parking spaces than churches or synagogues because of its unique worship times and traditions, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling issued Saturday by U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp stated that Bernards Township violated the Religious […]
(Morning Star News) – After more than three years, the leadership of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) remains in the hands of government-appointed committee members even after a court ruled in November that the appointments were illegal, sources said. Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment appointed a group to run the SPEC offices […]
(The Mirror) — The memory of her tiny baby’s body lying lifeless in the dust at the base of a tree tortures Amina. It was less than two months ago she fled through the vast Sambisa forest in north east Nigeria, in a desperate bid to escape Islamic terror group Boko Haram. She had been […]