VENEZUELA (International Lutheran Council) – The Lutheran Church of Venezuela (Iglesia Luterana de Venezuela – ILV) has announced that their former president, Luis Gregorio Coronado, has been murdered. Coronado was reported missing on December 12. He was found deceased, with his hands and feet bound, on December 16 in a vacant missionary residence building owned by […]
LONDON — A researcher in England who lost her job over her tweets that men cannot become women has also lost her legal challenge after a judge ruled on Wednesday that her “absolutist view” is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society” and is not protected under British law. Maya Forstater, 45, found herself […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Argentina’s new government, led by President Alberto Fernández, signed an executive decree to legalize abortion “de facto.” The Health Ministry authorized the Legal Interruption of Pregnancy Protoco on Dec. 12, days after the new government was officially installed. During his electoral campaign, Alberto Fernández had promised to legalize abortion despite opposition of […]
MEXICO (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — A government secretary in the state of Hidalgo has made public claims that there are no cases of religious intolerance in the Huasteca region, despite evidence from Protestant Christians who were forcibly displaced in July and others who are currently under threat of forced displacement because of their religious beliefs. […]
NORWICH, England — A mother in England is thankful that her daughter, now one, is defying expectations after being advised to abort her child in the womb because of a heart condition that “wouldn’t be compatible with life.” “When I was pregnant, they told me to have an abortion over 10 times because they said […]
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Dec. 19, 2019, the United States issued financial sanctions against two Iranian judges complicit in violating the human rights of Iranians. One of these judges, Mohammad Moghisseh, has a long record of specifically violating the rights of Iran’s Christian minority. “Through their respective […]
SCOTLAND (The Christian Institute) — New NHS guidelines in Scotland say that women who complain about sharing a ward with biological men are “transphobic” and should be treated like racists. Staff will be expected to say that there are “no men present” in response to a complaint from a female patient sharing a ward with […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in eastern India earlier this month surrounded a church building with axes, threatened to kill Christians within and later burned down the thatched-roof structure, sources said. Hard-line animists in Odisha state’s Perigaon village, Rayagada District, attacked on Dec. 1 after having raided Christians homes to seize and burn Bibles […]
(Barnabas Fund) — A distraught community is mourning and singing a new shared “lament” after Boko Haram violence claimed at least seven lives including Pastor David Mokoni and several Christian young people, in the latest spate of merciless Boko Haram attacks in Far North Cameroon. A local Christian leader says the repeated attacks in Moskota […]
(Ghana Web) — A video of members of a so-called church drinking their church leader’s bathwater has angered the Ghanaian public. The video, which became an instant internet sensation for the wrong reasons, had the so-called “man of God” directing his church members to drink water he had soaked his body in. … Unfortunately, […]