WEST SUSSEX (Premier) — A church-run playgroup has been banned from a local library following complaints from parents that their nursery rhymes mention God. Helpers from Noah’s Ark playgroup have met at Burgess Hill Library for the past eight years to sing songs based on Bible stories. The group has now been asked to take […]
GUIZHOU (ChinaAid) — On Sunday, June 30, authorities in Guizhou province broke into Zion Reform Evangelical Church during worship. Officials reportedly subjected congregants to inquiry and confiscated some church possessions. When asked to sign official documents, church leader Zhu Jieheng wrote down “God grants the right to worship” to demonstrate the church was not subject […]
NAGAUR, Rajasthan — A newborn baby seen in a viral video as she was left lying in the dirt at a garbage dump in India has tragically died in the hospital just weeks after a filmmaking couple declared that they wanted to adopt the child as their own daughter. “She fought, fought & fought. But at […]
(Fox News) — It was an emotional reunion 20 years in the making and a story “written by God.” Ileana Quintanilla, 21, was abandoned as a baby and raised by her grandparents in Nicaragua. Her mother was pregnant with her at 16, but her grandparents raised her with love, despite having little means. Ileana […]
(The Telegraph) — Christian doctor lost his job in a government department after he refused to refer to “a six-foot-tall bearded man” as “madam,” a tribunal heard. Dr. David Mackereth, 56, claims he was sacked as a disability benefits assessor by the Department of Work and Pensions over his religious beliefs. The father-of-four alleges […]
TAIPEI (ChinaAid) — Liao Qiang and several family members arrived in Taiwan last week after fleeing China. His attendance at a Sunday church service in Taipei represents the first time Qiang worshiped publicly since authorities shut down Early Rain Covenant Church last December, the Associated Press reports. Liao and his family hope to reside in […]
XIAMEN, Fujian (ChinaAid) — Police and security officials staked out the location of Xunsiding Church for at least a month after the house of worship was shut down in May. … The wife of Xunsiding Church’s pastor brought friends to the church’s location on June 30. A large group of police and other officials formed […]
ABERDEENSHIRE — A 17-year-old Scottish high school student says he was recently ejected from the classroom after he spoke up to one of his teachers who remarked that a website was “old-fashioned” because it only listed two genders. He was also suspended for secretly recording a discussion with the teacher about the matter, which was […]
(Fox News) — Archaeologists in Israel’s Golan Heights have discovered an ancient city gate from the time of King David. The find was made during an excavation at the ancient city of Bethsaida. “There are not too many monumental discoveries dating from the reign of King David,” Rami Arav, associate professor at the University of […]
LONDON — Two 10-year-old children in the United Kingdom were reprimanded and suspended for five days over allegations that they had made “homophobic remarks” after expressing objection to a lesson for Pride Month. According to the Christian Legal Centre, the incident took place on June 20 as a fifth grade teacher at Heavers Farm Primary […]