(The Christian Institute) — A baby expected to die shortly after birth has defied doctors’ expectations and has now been allowed to go home. Lilly Menear was born four months early at 22 weeks and two days and weighing just 1lb. 2oz. The staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital told mother Tayla they had […]
(The Christian Institute) — The Brazilian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to legalize abortions of unborn children who may have disabilities after their mothers contracted the Zika virus. In Brazil, abortion is currently classed a “non-punishable crime” in the case of a risk to the mother’s life, anencephaly or rape. However, activists were attempting […]
MURRELLS INLET, S.C. — A couple in South Carolina are praising the Lord and thanking their friends for their prayers and support after both survived the novel coronavirus. “The reality is I was near death. I’ll tell you, faith gets you through anything,” Charles Costello, 66, told local television station WPDE. Costello and his wife, […]
DANIELSVILLE, Ga. (Christian News Network) — A Baptist pastor in Georgia who was given a one percent chance of survival after contracting the novel coronavirus is crediting the hand of the Lord after overcoming the infection. “I do know that without Jesus Christ healing and touching my body and giving me what I needed that […]
(Barnabas Aid) — A spokesman for the Al-Shabaab terror group active in Somalia declared coronavirus as a “punishment visited by Allah upon the disbelievers” in an audio message reported on April 27. As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Mogadishu began to climb, the militant, known as Ali Dhere, called on Muslims to gloat […]
SYDNEY (Christian News Network) — A ministry director in Australia who served as a pastor in Scotland for 27 years is lamenting that many Christian leaders seem to be leaving the call to repentance from sin out of their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “In this recent Covid-19 crisis, it has struck me how the […]
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. (Christian News Network) — A 100-year-old woman with asthma recently beat the novel coronavirus, and her family is crediting their Christian faith for her survival. Edith Brachman turned 100 last summer and moved into a nursing home over the winter. Last month, she tested positive for the coronavirus. Brachman’s granddaughter, Kelly Venner, took […]
WASHINGTON (Christian News Network) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops have joined together to “consecrate” their nations to the care of Mary on May 1 and to ask that she intercede to Jesus during the COVID pandemic. Evangelicals believe that such practices are unbiblical as the Bible […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Fear of the coronavirus has also come to the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos (Greece), prompting several Christian organizations to take steps to protect the nearly 20,000 people crowded into the camp. According to a report published by Human Rights Watch on April 20, the refugee camps on the Greek islands, especially […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (Christian News Network) — A Louisiana man is thanking the Lord for pulling him through after he was hospitalized with COVID-19 and is aware that at least one other person being treated along with him did not survive. “Faith can conquer anything, and through this experience, I will never be the same […]