(The Christian Institute) — The Dutch government will move ahead with plans to decriminalize euthanasia for children under the age of twelve. The scheme will allow doctors to euthanize children deemed to be in “unbearable and hopeless suffering.” Euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 2002 and the law currently permits euthanasia for children over […]
(International Christian Concern) – On Sept. 22, members of the Sarya Adivasi Samaj (SAM) group summoned 15 Christian families to a meeting in Kakadabeda village, located in the Kondagoan district of India’s Chhattisgarh state. At this meeting, the Christians were told they had to recant their faith or be forced to leave their homes. When […]
(Yahoo News) — A history teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class was beheaded near his school in a Paris suburb on Friday by a suspected Islamist terrorist who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” police said. Alerted by local residents, police confronted and shot dead a man armed with a kitchen knife […]
(Christian Aid Mission) — Abandoned by his parents, a boy in rural Paraguay had not yet hit his teenage years when he began seeing how theft made him feel self-sufficient and tough. His friends were stealing and assaulting people, and he could feel the anger in him finding release if he had to beat people […]
(Church in Chains) — Early on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 11, several police officers forced their way into the apartment of Elder Li Yingqiang of Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. They tried to kick in the front door until Elder Li agreed to open it and took him […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Six people were murdered, including the acting village head, and three seriously injured in an attack by armed Fulani militants on Oct. 5 in Wereng, a beleaguered Christian village in Plateau State. The heavily armed attackers, who were wearing police uniforms according to eyewitnesses, sporadically fired their guns as they stormed the […]
(The Connexion) — Parents who educate their children at home have vowed to fight President Macron’s plan to ban home-schooling from September 2021 unless they have a medical reason. In a speech on anti-separatism, Mr Macron said that Education Authority inspectors regularly discover children who are ‘outside the system’ and every week prefects close illegal […]
(The Christian Institute) — The unborn child has no right to life, according to Amnesty International’s updated policy. Amnesty now states human rights protections only “apply after birth, not before.” The organization, which is one of the biggest promoters of abortion in the world, continues to call for its universal decriminalization. Read the group’s abortion […]
(Evangelical Focus) — A study published in September 2020 by the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain concluded that at least one out of four men began to consume pornography before the age of 13. David Pérez Aragó is the coordinator of the platform ‘Lliures de debò’ (Really Free), which has worked for five […]
(Barnabas Fund) — A Christian couple detained for being “apostates and evangelists spreading Christianity” in Muslim-majority Somaliland are to have their case forwarded to court, a police colonel announced at a press conference on Oct. 5. Police arrested the couple, who have three children, on Sept. 21 after finding Christian material at their home. Continue […]