(Inside Edition) — Jeane and Paul Briggs run a tight ship. With 38 children, 32 of whom are adopted and 25 still living at home, everything has to be scheduled to a T. There are set times for the kids’ homeschooling, playtime, and nap time. There’s a method to how they do laundry and […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Journalist and writer of evangelical faith Yoé Suárez arrived home early morning on Saturday, Aug. 10 after being questioned by the Cuban political police. He was detained on Friday in the city of Guantánamo (southeast of Cuba), where he had planned to conduct a series of journalistic interviews. Speaking to Evangélico Digital, […]
WOODBURY, Minn. (USA Today/Yahoo News) — A Minnesota father is facing second-degree murder charges after police say he deliberately dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head, killing him. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, authorities arrested 35-year-old Matthew Hoisser at his Woodbury home, roughly 20 miles from Minneapolis, in connection with the death of […]
(International Christian Concern) – On July 28, individuals believed to be radical Hindu nationalists disrupted a private prayer meeting and beat the pastor in northern India. The pastor was then reported to local police for allegedly converting individuals to Christianity. Pastor Raju Prassad is the leader of a small fellowship group in Kanshiram Colony, Uttar […]
(Louisville Courier Journal) — A Kentucky high school will not offer a course on the Bible because of legal concerns over a 2017 law that allows the teaching of such electives in the state’s public schools. The school-based decision making council for Anderson County High School in Lawrenceburg voted unanimously Tuesday to instead offer a […]
SANFORD, N.C. (WTVD) — A Sanford man is suing his former employer, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the Town of Siler City, and the Town of Apex for religious discrimination. Manuel Torres said he is deeply religious and his beliefs prohibit him from being alone with a woman who is not his wife. Evangelicals sometimes […]
PHILADELPHIA (USA Today) — A lawsuit filed on Monday against the Boy Scouts of America says hundreds of former Scouts have come forward in recent months with accounts of sexual abuse, allegations from across eight decades that reach nearly every state. Lawyers began collecting the accounts this spring as they prepared a suit, which […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Thursday evening, August 1, 2019, Fulani militants ambushed and shot three young men, all members of the Baptist church in Ancha village of Miango District in Nigeria’s Plateau State. The three men were serving as part of the community volunteer watch. Thankfully, all […]
MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT-TV) — Two months after Governor Ivey signed the bill, public schools in Alabama can now offer classes studying the Bible. This fall, Morgan County High Schools will start offering a class on Scripture. “This legislation just came out recently. The guidelines just came out very recently,” Piedmont International University President Charles […]
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Interrupting a worship service, police on Tuesday (Aug. 6) sealed a church building in north-central Algeria, less than three months after locking shut another site in the same area. “I am deeply saddened by so much injustice – it breaks my heart,” pastor Messaoud Takilt told Morning Star News. “This is […]