(NL Times) — Christian party SGP wants to ban mosques in the Netherlands from making their daily calls to prayer with the words “Allahu Akbar,” party leader Kees van der Staaij said to broadcaster NOS. This ban is one of the points in the SGP’s election campaign, which will be released in two weeks. “We’re […]
(New York Times) — In the Netherlands, a country vaunted for its liberalism, a proposal to legalize assisted suicide for older people who are generally healthy but feel they have led a full life has stirred up an ethical storm in some quarters. In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to […]
(Christian Institute) — Over 900 people with Down syndrome and their families have signed a petition opposing controversial prenatal screening proposals. The petition was delivered to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt by a campaign group who argue that the proposals will lead to the systematic abortion of Down’s babies. Don’t Screen Us Out say their concerns […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Two pastors and seven other Christians in Sudan were detained for four days last week after trying to stop a group of civilians and police from taking over their school, according to one of the arrested pastors. Local police on Oct. 6 arrested Samuel Suliman, headmaster of the Evangelical […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) — El Salvador’s Farabundo Marti Liberation Front, or FMLN, ruling party has proposed easing laws to allow women to receive abortions in cases of rape, risk to the life of the mother and if the fetus is not viable. Abortion is now banned in El Salvador. The FMLN needs the […]
(BBC) — South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu has revealed that he wants to have the option of an assisted death. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-apartheid campaigner said that he did “not wish to be kept alive at all costs,” writing in the Washington Post newspaper on his 85th birthday. Mr. Tutu came out […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (Daily Post) — A 40-year-old Muslim cleric, Saheed Gbadamosi, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly threatening to bathe a pastor with acid and destroying his church property. The accused, a resident of Aboru area of Iyana-Ipaja, is being tried for breach of peace, assault and threat to life. […]
(Christian Solidarity Nationwide) — Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), together with over 50 civil society organizations and Vietnamese religious groups, calls upon the Vietnamese government to further revise its draft Law on Belief and Religion, to conform with Vietnam’s obligations under international human rights law. This is Vietnam’s first law on religion and belief, and the current draft […]
(Morning Star News) – A pastor, his wife and their nine children have been sleeping on the floor of their small church building on the island of Zanzibar since Muslim extremists set their house on fire in August. Pastor Damson Maonesho has seen his 9-month-old baby contract pneumonia since his family had to take refuge […]
(China Aid) — Accused of gathering a congregation for religious services, a house church in China’s southwestern Sichuan province received orders on Sept. 2 to immediately stop meeting at their building and adhere to a list of restrictions. Issued to Zhang Daichun, a member of the church, a document entitled “Notice of Order to Reform” […]