A national evangelistic group is denouncing the recent arrest of six Christians in New Orleans’ French Quarter and is seeking intervention from the federal government, including the Department of Justice. As previously reported, this past Friday, Pastor Troy Bohn of Raven Ministries and five members of his ministry team were arrested while ministering the Gospel […]
A pastor and five members of his ministry team were arrested Friday night in New Orleans, Louisiana for preaching on Bourbon Street after sunset. Pastor Troy Bohn of RAVEN Ministries (Restoring a Vision and Evangelizing Nations) and his ministry associates were taken into custody as they were sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ after 10:00 […]
The Ohio Department of Education already has rescinded a “letter of admonishment” issued to a Christian fired for encouraging students to think critically about the origin of life, and now a legal team is asking the state Supreme Court to restore John Freshwater to his classroom. Freshwater, who has taught for 24 years, was suspended […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of the Koran was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said. The release a day after a judge granted her bail is another step closer to ending an episode […]
At least 80 Christian children have been kidnapped from their homes by radical Islamic clerics in Bangladesh, sold to Madrasas and forced to convert to Islam, reports state. According to the organization International Christian Concern (ICC), only 11 of the 80 children that have been missing for more than half a year have been located […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have arrested a young Christian girl after hundreds of furious neighbors gathered outside her house and accused her of violating the country’s strict blasphemy laws by burning pages of the Muslim holy book, police and neighbors said Monday. The girl’s age was not immediately clear, with reports ranging from 11 […]
Authorities have identified the gunman who shot a security guard Wednesday at the headquarters of the Christian-based lobbying group Family Research Council. Floyd Corkins II, 28, of Herndon, Virginia, was taken into custody by Washington, D.C. police yesterday morning after opening fire in the lobby of the organization. He was characterized by witnesses as being […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Tuesday, a Good Samaritan and the local street preacher he helped were reunited. Kenneth Cushman shook hands with Gene Duffy Sr., just one day after being released from the hospital with multiple stab wounds. “The goodness of god is just all over that man,” said Duffy. Continue Reading This Story >>
PHILADELPHIA — An evangelist was cited with disorderly conduct Friday night after a woman passing by stopped and exposed herself as he was preaching. Mike Stockwell of Cross Country Evangelism says that he was open-air preaching on the infamous South Street in Philadelphia late Friday, which is a popular downtown area known for its bars, […]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Evangelists that visited the largest free festival in the Southeast this past weekend say that police looked on while event-goers engaged in openly lewd acts and turned hostile toward the message of the gospel. Christians from at least nine states traveled to the Bele Chere festival in Asheville, North Carolina to witness […]