An increase in violence against Christians in northern Iraq has increased the flow of Christians leaving the country. The north, generally considered a relatively safe area of the country, had become home for many Christians fleeing from the tumultuous central and southern regions. However, several bombings in the north in recent months have caused panic […]
Washington, D.C. — A recent spate of attacks against Christians and house churches in China underlines the country’s relentless habit of persecuting Christians, even at the cost of its own reputation in the international community. Christians Beaten in Hainan Province On Aug. 14, a number of Christians in Lingao town, Lincheng county, Hainan Province, were […]
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A woman has filed a federal lawsuit saying she was wrongly fired from her job at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship because her marriage broke down. Alyce Conlon said she was aware of at least two men at the nonprofit who divorced their spouses and were not disciplined or fired. Conlon had worked […]
Chuck Smith, the evangelical pastor who preached the Gospel to a generation of hippies, died on Thursday after battling lung cancer. He passed away at the age of 86, two years after being diagnosed with the illness. Smith was the founder of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in California, where he was pastor since 1965. Despite […]
BIRMINGHAM, England — The chief executive of Britain’s largest abortion organisation is asserting that women in the country are legally free to abort a baby based on gender. Anne Furedi, head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), states that women the law allows women to terminate their pregnancies if they are unhappy with the […]
Bijie, Guizhou–- The victim of one of the most shocking forced abortion cases to be reported has given ChinaAid an exclusive and detailed account of the events that led up to the termination of her mid-term pregnancy by officials in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. Li Fengfei, 31, was in her second trimester when […]
JERUSALEM — In excavating sites in a long-inhabited urban area like Jerusalem, archaeologists are accustomed to noting complexity in their finds – how various occupying civilizations layer over one another during the site’s continuous use over millennia. But when an area has also been abandoned for intermittent periods, paradoxically there may be even richer finds […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Incidents of violence against Christians in India’s Karnataka state have spiked since June, including hospitalization of a school helper this month after Hindu extremists beat her and marched her through the streets. Hindu extremists kicked and punched the 50-year-old Christian woman, who goes by the single name of Sannamma, […]
NEWPORT, Tenn. – A Tennessee judge has overturned an earlier court ruling by declaring that two parents have the constitutional right to name their child “Messiah.” As previously reported, Child Support Magistrate LuAnn Ballew of Tennessee’s 4th Judicial District ruled last month in a name dispute case that two unmarried parents could not name their […]
EAST KILBRIDE, Scotland – Two Christians have been removed from teaching positions at a Scottish school after officials discovered they were allowing students to read books about Biblical creation. Alexandra MacKenzie and Elizabeth Mockus were both instructors at Kirktonholme Primary School in southern Scotland. According to media reports, the two instructors are affiliated with a […]