(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on November 19, 2019, Korean evangelist Jinwook Kim was stabbed on the streets in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. He later died in the hospital from his injuries; he was 41 years old. The Public Security Branch Directorate of Murder Bureau has […]
(Christian Concern) — A Christian West End actress, Seyi Omooba, was removed from a leading role in a musical and dropped from her agency for a Facebook post citing the Bible over four years earlier. With help from the Christian Legal Centre, she is launching a legal challenge of the theatre and the agency. The […]
(The Christian Institute) — New Zealand’s parliament has voted in favor of introducing assisted suicide, and the public will vote in a referendum to decide the issue next year. The bill would give people with a terminal illness, and believed to have less than six months to live, the option of requesting assisted suicide. It […]
(Morning Star News) – A Christian in Iran convicted of conducting evangelistic activities began a mandated two years in exile this month in a remote area on the border with Pakistan, sources said. As part of a larger prison sentence delivered in 2013, Ebrahim Firoozi, 33, was sentenced to two years in exile in Sarbaz, […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria on early Thursday morning (Nov. 14) hacked an 87-year-old Christian to death by machete and killed another by gunshot, an area resident said. A group of herdsmen attacked predominantly Christian Agom village in southern Kaduna state’s Sanga Country at 4:30 a.m., area resident […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Spain continues to be one of the countries with the least evangelical Christians in the world, with more than 7,000 towns and villages that have not been reached by the gospel. Although many of these locations are in rural areas and have less than 100 inhabitants, there is also a group of […]
A video advertisement posted to social media by Sprite Argentina celebrates “pride,” depicting — among other things — mothers taking pride in their teenage children by helping them present themselves as “transgender.” The video, which has received more than 3 million views as of press time, was posted to Twitter on Nov. 1 with the […]
(The Christian Institute) — Twins believed to be the UK’s smallest ever surviving babies are now seven months old. Born at 23 weeks, Joe and Ashley Keates weighed less than one pound and were each as small as their mother’s hand. After more than four months in intensive care, they are now at home with […]
(International Christian Concern) – On Nov. 4, a mob of armed Muslims stopped Christians from constructing a church building in the village of Chak 211/EB, located near Arifwala, in the Pakpattan district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. According to local Christians, they are being denied their basic constitutional rights by village leaders. The incident started when […]
(Fox News) — A pastor believed to have been abducted because he shared his Christian faith with Muslims in a country enforcing a strict Islamic code — and whose 2017 kidnapping was caught in chilling footage — is the subject of a new petition urging the Malaysian government to send Raymond Koh back to […]