(Fox News) — ISIS released a video Thursday that purportedly shows militants in black masks beheading 10 blindfolded Christian men and shooting an 11th in Nigeria, as part of a grisly campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the group’s spokesman. The militant group’s video was produced by its own […]
(Fox News) — More than 1,000 Christians have been murdered by Islamic militants this year in Nigeria, according to a report circulated by Christian news outlets earlier this month. A militia of Islamic Fulani herdsmen murdered Christians as part of an aggressive and strategic land-grabbing strategy across the Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Southern Kaduna and parts […]
(The Christian Institute) — By the age of 13, more than one in three children who use smartphones have been exposed to sexting, a parenting app has revealed. Jiminy, which enables parents to check on their children’s phone use, analysed over 54 million messages and 1.5 million hours of phone usage to better understand the […]
COSTA DEL SOL (Evangelical Focus) — A British pastor and his two children drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol, in the south of Spain, on Tuesday. Gabriel Diya, along with his 16-year-old son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, jumped in the pool to save his daughter, Comfort Diya, 9, who was having difficulties […]
(New York Daily News) — The headquarters of a Brazilian comedy group behind a Netflix Christmas special that depicts a gay Jesus was attacked by vandals early on Christmas Eve, according to a statement released by the group. “The First Temptation of Christ” is a satirical enactment of a surprise birthday party for Jesus, which […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) — On October 3rd, Rhonda Nerren said goodbye to her husband Bryan, as she has done more than a dozen times in their marriage for what was supposed to be another two-week mission trip. Eleven weeks later, she wonders when she will see him again, as he is stranded in India, […]
(International Christian Concern) – As persecution against Christians in China intensifies, neighboring communist Southeast Asian countries also follow suit and begin to narrow the space for churches to exist. While the future seems dimmed, a group of volunteers crossed borders and entered the communist Laos to bring the Word of God and encourage our Body […]
(Church in Chains) — Tajik pastor Bakhrom Kholmatov has been released from prison three months early. He was due for release in March 2020, but was freed at 10 a.m. on Dec. 18. Pastor Bakhrom (43) was arrested and imprisoned in April 2017 after secret police officers raided his church, the Sunmin Sunbogym (Good News […]
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Ethnic rebels who closed more than 100 churches in eastern Burma (Myanmar) in 2018 have allowed 51 Baptist churches to reopen, sources said. Ethnic Wa rebels of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) this week announced they had permitted 51 Baptist churches to reopen in northern Shan state after investigating the […]
VENEZUELA (International Lutheran Council) – The Lutheran Church of Venezuela (Iglesia Luterana de Venezuela – ILV) has announced that their former president, Luis Gregorio Coronado, has been murdered. Coronado was reported missing on December 12. He was found deceased, with his hands and feet bound, on December 16 in a vacant missionary residence building owned by […]