SHILOH — A U.S.-based archaeologist and his dig team have uncovered a number of artifacts in the land of Shiloh on Israel’s West Bank that he believes point to a site where activity for the Israelite tabernacle, as outlined in the Old Testament, took place for more than 300 years. Scott Stripling with the Pennsylvania-based […]
East Africa (Mission Network News) — In East Africa, children with disabilities or mental health conditions are often severely mistreated. Parents don’t always know what to do with their disabled kids and even see them as curses or bad omens. So these children are often locked away or chained up. They are malnourished, abused, and […]
(Barnabas Aid) — Pakistan’s government approved a new law to monitor online platforms on Jan. 28, which would require social media companies to remove any “unwanted and slanderous” online content within 24 hours, or six hours in “emergency cases,” prompting concerns over “blasphemy” accusations. Any company failing to share any data or remove any content […]
PERTH — A Christian couple in Australia has filed legal action after their application to foster children was denied, with the claim that it was not certain they could provide a “safe living environment” due to their biblical views on homosexuality. According to reports, Byron and Keira Hordyk, who attend Free Reformed Church of Baldivis and […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in northern India spent more than two months in jail suffering abuse from other prisoners, even though police found no evidence of wrongdoing and the complainant retracted his accusation, sources said. In Uttar Pradesh state’s Mau District, 23-year-old pastor Ajay Kumar, fellow pastor Om Prakash, 20, and another […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Rebecca Sharibu, the mother of 16 year-old schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, joined a protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in London, organized by CSW to mark the second anniversary of her daughter’s abduction and call on the Nigerian government to do everything in its power to secure her release. Leah Sharibu […]
(The Christian Institute) — The Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary has claimed that babies are born without a biological sex. Dawn Butler, MP for Brent Central, was speaking on Good Morning Britain while defending the Labor Party’s position on radical gender ideology. Science clearly shows babies have the genetic coding for their sex from the […]
(International Christian Concern) – On Tuesday, February 18, a court in India’s Madhya Pradesh state acquitted eight Christians falsely accused of attempting to forcefully convert 60 children to Christianity. The court’s decision brings to a close a two-and-a-half-year legal battle that saw these eight Christians falsely accused of heinous crimes and imprisoned for months. In […]
(The Christian Institute) — It has been revealed that 34 police forces in England and Wales recorded almost 120,000 non-crime “hate incidents” between 2014-2019. So-called hate incidents must be recorded “irrespective of whether there is any evidence to identify the hate element,” according to the College of Policing (CoP) guidelines. Although such cases are not […]
CHENGDU — A pastor said at a recent memorial service for the first victim of the coronavirus in China’s Sichuan Province that he was able to share the gospel with the woman before she died. A translation of the message from Peng Qiang, pastor of Chengdu’s Enfu Reformed Gospel Church, was posted this month on […]