Iran (Mission Network News) — Pressure is building in Iran as yet another group of believers pay for claiming the name of Christ. According to Miles Windsor of Middle East Concern, seven believers are in solitary confinement with no access to lawyers. In a separate incident, five men accused of “propaganda against the regime” began […]
WEST SUSSEX (Premier) — A church-run playgroup has been banned from a local library following complaints from parents that their nursery rhymes mention God. Helpers from Noah’s Ark playgroup have met at Burgess Hill Library for the past eight years to sing songs based on Bible stories. The group has now been asked to take […]
GUIZHOU (ChinaAid) — On Sunday, June 30, authorities in Guizhou province broke into Zion Reform Evangelical Church during worship. Officials reportedly subjected congregants to inquiry and confiscated some church possessions. When asked to sign official documents, church leader Zhu Jieheng wrote down “God grants the right to worship” to demonstrate the church was not subject […]
(The Telegraph) — Christian doctor lost his job in a government department after he refused to refer to “a six-foot-tall bearded man” as “madam,” a tribunal heard. Dr. David Mackereth, 56, claims he was sacked as a disability benefits assessor by the Department of Work and Pensions over his religious beliefs. The father-of-four alleges […]
TAIPEI (ChinaAid) — Liao Qiang and several family members arrived in Taiwan last week after fleeing China. His attendance at a Sunday church service in Taipei represents the first time Qiang worshiped publicly since authorities shut down Early Rain Covenant Church last December, the Associated Press reports. Liao and his family hope to reside in […]
XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Police and security officials staked out the location of Xunsiding Church for at least a month after the house of worship was shut down in May. … The wife of Xunsiding Church’s pastor brought friends to the church’s location on June 30. A large group of police and other officials formed […]
(Fox News) — Archaeologists in Israel’s Golan Heights have discovered an ancient city gate from the time of King David. The find was made during an excavation at the ancient city of Bethsaida. “There are not too many monumental discoveries dating from the reign of King David,” Rami Arav, associate professor at the University of […]
(The Christian Institute) — Amsterdam’s Mayor Femke Halsema is considering plans to cover up the city’s 330 infamous red light windows. In March, it was also announced that Amsterdam will ban guided tours around its brothel areas from January 2020. Deputy Mayor Udo Kock said it was no longer appropriate to see prostitution “as a […]
XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Authorities in China’s Fujian province carried out campaigns against Christian house churches to meet a July 1 goal of clean-up and rectification. As part of their efforts, authorities dispatched police to Xinzao Church to monitor the location each day. Officials issued an administrative shutdown notice against the church on June 19, […]
(The Christian Institute) — A woman identifying as a man suffered a stillbirth after records disguised the fact that she was really a female. The 32-year-old patient arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, but misleading medical records meant nurses did not treat it as an emergency. … Doctors were informed that the patient […]