(Morning Star News) – The 8-year-old boy didn’t realize that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family. The seventh and youngest child of 54-year-old Lezia Nakayiza, widowed since September 2018, he didn’t know that his family was keeping their faith secret in Kasenge village, […]
(Ottawa Citizen) — Syphilis is making a comeback in Ottawa, with a 400 per cent increase in cases in the city over the past five years. The sexually transmitted disease, which is treatable with penicillin, is both highly contagious and easy to miss because patients are sometimes asymptomatic, or have symptoms that last only a […]
(The Christian Institute) — Welsh councillors have defended their freedom to conduct prayers before meetings in the face of opposition from those labelling it “discriminatory.” Councillor Paul Penlington called on Denbighshire Council to conduct prayers away from the council chamber, and has received the support of the National Secular Society. But the Council has said […]
NASHVILLE — A Roman Catholic school in Tennessee has decided to pull all Harry Potter books from its library shelves over concerns about the spiritual impact of the curses and spells in the series, which centers on a boy who studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. “These books present magic as both good […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH-TV) — Two congregations came together to unite in prayer Friday evening. Rosewood Baptist Church hosted a vigil for Centro Cristiano de Columbia where a gunman shot a parishioner, Esvin Perez, during early morning services this past Sunday. Jerimias Perez, the brother of of Esvin, spoke to the crowd with another witness and […]
SILVER SPRING, Md. (NBC Washington) — Detectives arrested the mother of a newborn baby someone discovered in the woods in Maryland. Leticia Guzman, 25, of Silver Spring, has been charged with child neglect and reckless endangerment, nearly two weeks after the baby was found. A man was walking in the 10000 block of Tenbrook Drive […]
LOCKLAND, Ohio (WXIX-TV) — Two men are under arrest on child rape and porn charges as police race to identify children they suspect are being victimized in pornographic pictures posted online. Lockland police describe the case as the worst they’ve ever seen. They say they found the pornographic images, including child bestiality, on the suspects’ […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — CSW has learned that an evangelical pastor died on Aug. 10 after being shot multiple times in his home in Bajo Cauca Antioquia, northern Colombia. The body of Pastor Plinio Rafael Salcedo was discovered at his home in the village of La Caucana, in the town and municipality of Tarazá, Bajo […]
(International Christian Concern) – There have been at least four reported cases of abduction of clergy this month in Kaduna State alone. The first took place on Aug. 4 when gunmen ambushed a pastor, Jeremiah Omolewa of Living Faith Church, and his wife while they were driving. The gunmen killed the pastor and then abducted […]
Cameroon (Mission Network News) — The Fulani herdsmen are known to frequent Nigeria. However, their nomadic lifestyle recently brought them to Cameroon. On Sunday, a Bible translator participating in the Wycliffe Bible Translators movement was killed in his home during an attack by the Fulani herdsmen. The attack took place in Wum, a village located […]