(The Christian Institute) — A set of identical twins are getting ready to celebrate their first birthday after emergency in-womb surgery at 18 weeks saved their lives. Frazer and Cole Wacey were given just a 10 percent chance of survival after doctors discovered a fluid imbalance between the boys in the womb. The boys’ mother, […]
(The Christian Institute) — The BBC has received 1,238 complaints over a controversial Songs of Praise episode featuring a same-sex wedding. The episode was billed as a celebration of faith and marriage, but showed clips of the wedding between Jamie Wallace and Ian McDowall at Rutherglen United Reformed Church near Glasgow. Viewers strongly objected to […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – After Christians fended off an attempt to close a church building in Algeria on Aug. 26, gendarmes arrived early Monday morning (Sept. 2) and sealed it shut, sources said. Church leaders and their attorney had asserted that the order from the head of Bejaia Province to close the church in Ighzer […]
(International Christian Concern) — On Sunday, Sept. 1, activists from the Bajrang Dal, a youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad, ended a Christian prayer gathering in Worli Naka, located in Mumbai, India. According to initial reports, the nationalists falsely accused the Christians of practicing “forced conversions” and disturbing public order to pressure local […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Baptist pastor kidnapped and tortured last month in Nigeria was released over the weekend after his family and Christian leaders paid a ransom, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna state who abducted Elisha Noma on Aug. 14 received 3 million naira (US$8,181) before freeing him on Saturday […]
(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 […]