(CBS News) — Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the airline is planning to require passengers traveling internationally to prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 after the vaccinations become available to the public. In an interview with Australian broadcaster 9 Network, Joyce said Monday that the company is looking to change its terms and conditions […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The Lausanne movement in Spain has just published the report “The Missionality of the Evangelical Churches in Spain,” authored by five members of its steering committee: Ron Anderson, Eliseo Casal, Jaume Llenas, Jim Memory and Francisco Mira. Memory pointed out that the national Lausanne network “has taken on the purpose of promoting […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Haruna Kuye, the community leader of a predominantly Christian village in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria, and his teenage son, Destiny Kuye, both Christians, were killed when armed men entered their home in the early hours of Nov. 17. Fulani militants are suspected of carrying out the brutal attack in Mazaki village, Zangon […]
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A young Christian teacher in northeastern Egypt is facing charges of insulting Islam after he posted comments on Facebook, according to local reports. Youssef Hany of Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal 78 miles northeast of Cairo, posted the comments earlier this month in reply to a Muslim who had […]
South Korea (Mission Network News) — A believer awaits charges for launching Bible balloons from South Korea into North Korea. Last week, South Korean police recommended that prosecutors charge Eric Foley with Voice of the Martyrs Korea on three counts. “One of them is related to the violation of an inter-Korean exchange law. [This] is […]
JERUSALEM — A fortification dating to the time of King David has been discovered in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, along with an engraving of two horned figures on a stone tablet. The find is believed to be that of the Geshurites, a people group mentioned in the Old Testament who did not follow Yahweh but […]
China (International Christian Concern) – The leader of a house church in China’s Yunnan province was detained for five days as his “administrative punishment,” since he held worship at his residence and “disturbed public order.” According to China Aid, on November 15, Li Chunze, the leader of a house church in Panlong District in the […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The “House of One” in Berlin (Germany) will be a large building where Jews, Christians and Muslims will all have a space to worship. … Once it is finished, the building will have a church, a synagogue and a mosque, all connected by a central room. … Christian Wulff said “The House […]
TORONTO (CTV News) — When 90-year-old Nancy Russell died last month, she was surrounded by friends and family. They clustered around her bed, singing a song she had chosen to send her off, as a doctor helped her through a medically-assisted death. It was the exact opposite of the lonely months of lockdown Russell […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Community leaders in a village in Hidalgo state are threatening to expel two Protestant families if they do not fully pay a fine levied against them because of their religious beliefs. The two families belong to a group of Protestant families in La Mesa Limantitla, located in the Huasteca region of […]