(The Christian Institute) — New research shows the rapid growth of the church in Iran, with Iranian Christians now numbering around one million. The study was conducted by The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN). The Netherlands-based research group seeks to access the opinions of Iranians on sensitive issues that cannot be […]
(Christian Headlines) — A kind citizen left an encouraging note on a police officer’s windshield earlier this week in Huntersville, North Carolina. Faithwire shared that after getting coffee at a Dunkin’ Donuts, Officer Aron walked out to his squad car to find a little note written on a Dunkin’ napkin. “Praying God’s protection over you […]
(The Christian Institute) — The parents of one of the smallest babies ever born in Australia have shared how their tiny baby has defied the odds to be allowed home. Baby Mimi Marks weighed just 13 oz. when she was born in April at only 26 weeks — 14 weeks premature. Since birth she has […]
(National Review) — Minneapolis City Council members complained of rising crime rates in the city and asked the city’s police chief what he is doing about it during a Tuesday meeting on police reform, months after the council proposed dismantling the police department. Council members told Police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents have […]
(International Christian Concern) – Christians in Uttar Pradesh, a state located in northern India, are no strangers to persecution. Year after year, Uttar Pradesh is identified as the state where most Christian persecution incidents are recorded in India. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), 86 of the 366 violent attacks on Indian Christians […]
(The Christian Institute) — Almost 110,000 abortions were carried out on residents of England and Wales between January and June this year, the government has revealed. Figures released by the Department for Health and Social Care indicated there had been an increase of more than 4,000 on the same period last year. In the whole […]
(PennLive/The Patriot-News) — The siblings of a 12-year-old central Pennsylvania boy who was found beaten and starved to death and covered in feces in his family’s home “were told to ignore him and not talk to him,” the district attorney said Monday morning. That was just part of the torture Maxwell Schollenberger suffered at the […]
(The Christian Institute) — The Christian Institute has said that difficulties are not a reason to give up on marriage, following a rise in online searches for divorce guidance. Speaking to Premier Christian Radio, The Christian Institute’s Deputy Director for Communications Ciarán Kelly urged Christians to hold on to the importance of marriage in […]
(Barnabas Fund) — At least 58 people were killed and 17 kidnapped when Muslim militants attacked two villages in the mainly-Christian north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in early September. Twenty-three people were murdered on Sept. 8 and another 35 were killed two days later in the heavily forested Tshabi area of southern Ituri […]
(Barnabas Fund) — A Nigerian pastor, already wounded in a Fulani militant attack, was shot multiple times by the gunmen as he attempted to warn his Adara Christian community, in Kaduna State, of the impending raid on Sept. 6. Pastor Alubara Audu heard voices close to his home at 2 a.m. and attempted to raise […]