BEIJING (New York Times) — A court in southeastern China has sentenced a Protestant pastor to 14 years in prison and his wife to 12 years after convicting them of corruption, financial crimes and gathering people to disturb social order, an official provincial newspaper reported on Friday. The sentences for the pastor, Bao Guohua, and […]
Kenya (Mission Network News) — Nearly 70% of people in Kenya are Christians, according to African Studies Center. And in Nairobi, there’s the highest concentration of evangelicals in the world. Yet, even in this country, there are more than 4,000,000 people unreached by the Gospel. In the northern and eastern parts of the country, the […]
(Jerusalem Post) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed his support on the Knesset’s first designated LGBT Rights Day on Tuesday. Netanyahu rarely appears in the legislature on Tuesdays, a day on which it usually does not hold important votes, but he arrived specially to participate in LGBT Rights Day, during which discussions of the topic […]
(China Aid) — Approximately 200 Christians from two churches in China’s southwestern Yunnan province participated in a rule of law training in order to understand how to defend themselves against wrongful persecution in late January and early February. Bo Ai, the founder of the Chinese Christian Faith and Legal Training Camp, told China Aid he […]
(The Mirror) — Scientists have claimed they have found a way for women to have babies without men by creating artificial sperm. The team from China claim they have created healthy mouse babies by injecting laboratory-made sperm into eggs to produce mouse offspring. The scientists claim their stem cell technique could pave the way for […]
(Mission Network News) — These certainly are exciting times for the Great Commission. Developments like the Global Bible Network are making our job as believers easier than ever before. Faith Comes by Hearing (FCBH) VP Troy Carl says they are working on a digital network that uses mobile devices, satellites, and language-recognition to deliver God’s […]
PHILADELPHIA (Washington Post) — In recent years, lower federal courts have generally held that the First Amendment protects a right to video-record (and photograph) in public places, especially when one is recording public servants such as the police. Because recording events that you observe in public places is important to be able to speak effectively […]
MOSUL, Iraq (NBC News) — Counter-terrorism forces have freed a 16-year-old Swedish girl from ISIS captivity in Iraq, Kurdish officials said Tuesday. The teenager was rescued near the ISIS-occupied city of Mosul on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council. Originally from the Swedish city of Boras, the girl was “misled […]
China (Mission Network News) — Despite the persecution, Christianity has increased in China over the years. It is slowly rising to be one of the world’s most Christian nations. A lot of the thanks go to missionaries and mission organizations, including Bibles for China. Bibles for China has come alongside local churches in China to […]
(Daily Beast) — ISIS is deploying children as fighters and on suicide missions at far greater rates than previously estimated, according to a new report published in the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point’s CTC Sentinel. At least 89 boys died fighting in the name of ISIS from January 2015 to January 2016, according to […]