WASHINGTON (USA Today) – The Supreme Court ruled on a temporary basis Thursday night that women seeking to end their pregnancies with medication do not need to visit a [physical facility], given the COVID-19 pandemic. The action was a setback for the Trump administration, which had sought to reinstate a 20-year-old policy following lower court […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian and his 20-year-old son have taken refuge at an undisclosed location since an attack on Sept. 2 in Chhattisgarh state left the father with permanent damage to his hearing, sources said. Jagra Kashyap, 45, and son Asharam Kashyap had to leave their families at home in Badrenga village, Bastar […]
(The Christian Institute) — NHS England’s only gender identity clinic has defended prescribing hormone blockers to children as young as ten. Fenella Morris QC, representing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, told the High Court this past week that several ten-year-olds had already received the drugs at their clinic. Detransitioner Keira Bell is taking […]
(Morning Star News) – A pastor’s son, his cousin and their 20-year-old aunt were assaulted in a suburb north of Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday (Oct. 6) as Muslims continued targeting church members despite religious freedoms favored by the new transitional government. Levi Hakim, 17, had gone into a shop in the Alsamrab neighborhood in Khartoum […]
(International Christian Concern) – On October 4, a pastor in India’s Uttar Pradesh state was brutally attacked after they falsely accused the pastor of being involved in forced conversions. The attack left the pastor hospitalized with serious injuries, including multiple bone fractures. On the day of the incident, a mob of 10 to 12 people […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The latest British Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s (IICSA) report recently published, has focused its investigation on the Church of England and the Church of Wales. It is based on the inquiry’s public hearings held in July 2019. The report explains that “convictions of sexual abuse of children by people who […]
(International Christian Concern) – According to The Arunchal Times, the pastor of Tawang Revival Church, Pastor Joseph Singhi, was arrested by police in Tawang for allegedly constructing an illegal church. Pastor Singhi was later released on bail, but the controversy over the church continues. According to the Christian community of Tawang, located in India’s Arunchal […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Christians were warned “to leave their faith or face fatal consequences” before around 16 of their homes were razed by extremists in India’s Chhattisgarh state on Sept. 22 and 23. The series of “brazen and perilous” attacks by extremists on three villages in the district of Kondagaon have left the Christian victims […]
TYLER COUNTY, Texas (WFLA) — Netflix, Inc. has been indicted by a grand jury in Texas for distributing and promoting the film “Cuties,” which the state says sexualizes preteen girls. … The film’s creator, Maimouna Doucoure, said she made the film to spotlight the dangers social media has on pre-teens who think they need to […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Los Angeles Times) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday appointed Martin Jenkins, a moderate Black former prosecutor and judge, to the California Supreme Court. Jenkins, a 66-year-old Democrat, is now Newsom’s judicial appointments secretary. He will become the first openly gay justice on the California Supreme Court, and only the third Black […]