LONDON — A headteacher in the UK who suspended two 10-year-old students over allegations that they had made “homophobic remarks” after expressing objection to a lesson for Pride Month also reported a church that one of the children attends for a “hate crime.” The Christian Legal Centre reports that the parents of the children asked […]
(Bitter Winter) — The CCP’s campaign to eliminate house churches is intensifying in the southern provinces of China. One of the most influential house churches in Fujian, Xunsiding Church, was forcibly closed down on May 31; and in Guangdong, Rongguili Church and the House of David Church, as well as multiple unofficial Protestant places […]
(International Christian Concern) — Last Sunday, Christians were seriously injured in an attack by Hindu radicals in Belchori Village in the North Indian State of Jharkhand. The incident took place when eight Christian families from Friends Missionary Prayer Band refused to recant their Christian faith when threatened. At the expense of their faith, five of […]
(The Christian Institute) — The number of people in the UK with sexually transmitted diseases has risen rapidly in the last 10 years. Cases of gonorrhoea tripled between 2007 and 2017, while syphilis cases more than doubled over the same period of time. The UK has the second highest rate of syphilis among men in […]
(The Christian Institute) — Fast-tracked “back door regulations” to impose abortion and same-sex marriage are “disrespectful to the people of Northern Ireland,” MPs have been warned. The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill was rushed through its parliamentary stages this week, with both MPs and Peers debating the legislation. Support for amendments on same-sex marriage and […]
WASHINGTON (Baptist Press) — North Korea’s decades-long attempt to eliminate Christianity has practically erased any knowledge of Jesus for citizens, attendees were told Thursday (July 18) at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The ERLC hosted the meeting on religious liberty under the dictatorial regime at a […]
(Open Doors USA) — The last sight 17-year-old Esther remembers seeing the day her world turned upside down was her father’s collapsed body lying lifeless on the ground. Before that October day, Esther and her father lived a pretty simple life after her mother passed away. She attended school and took care of her ailing […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Evangelical leaders Moisés de Prada and Álida León were stopped by immigration officials of the Cuban government on Sunday, July 14 at the International Airport José Martí of La Habana, when they tried to take a plane to attend a religious freedom conference in the United States. Prada is the President of […]
(Morning Star News) – A widow in central Uganda has fled her homestead after receiving Islamist threats when she arranged for a pastor to bury the body of her husband, sources said. Local leaders on July 11 gave Sharifa Kasozi Nakamate, of Kirinda in Wakiso District, one day to recant her Christian faith or leave […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 8, 2019, an Armenian Christian woman living in the Syrian Governorate of Idlib went missing. Suzan Der Kirkour was 60 years old and her body was found the next day just outside of her village, al-Yaqoubiyeh. An autopsy revealed that Suzan was […]