WARRINGTON — A primary school teacher was featured in a recent BBC video as she gave an assignment to six-year-old children to write a love letter from a prince to his male servant, convincing him to “marry” him. The controversial assignment has received mixed reaction from viewers, as some support the idea and others find […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The bodies of 34 children attending a Bible camp in a remote northern region of the island of Sulawesi (Indonesia) have been found, the Red Cross confirmed. A mudslide engulfed the Christian church, rescuers said. “A total of 34 bodies were found by the team,” Indonesia Red Cross spokeswoman Aulia Arriani told […]
Lahore (AsiaNews) – Disfigured with acid because of the jealousy of colleagues and because of his Christian faith: This is the story of Faraz Ahmed Badar from a small village in Punjab, Pakistan. The 26-year-old Christian, who had recently graduated in pharmacy, had been working for about two years as a manager at the DHQ […]
ZHENGZHOU, Henan (China Aid) — Officials in Zhengzhou, capital of China’s Henan province, sent people to blockade off the church during a service on Sunday, Sept. 16. In response, the church posted an SOS notice online, calling on all Christians in the area to support them. The message appeared at 9:00 a.m., calling on other adherents […]
TORONTO (CBC News) — A Scarborough church has terminated its more than three-year-old contract with a Toronto sign company over the sign company’s refusal to post “gay-positive” and other messages on the church’s behalf. St. Paul’s United Church is the latest to be embroiled in a dispute with Archer Mobile Signs Limited. Windermere United Church […]
(Fox News) — An Indonesian teenager, who worked on a floating fish trap 80 miles off the country’s coast, survived 49 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean with only a Bible, limited rations and a small radio, reports said Monday. Strong winds during a July storm reportedly snapped the lines keeping Aldi Novel Adilang, a […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A pastor was one of at least 27 people who lost their lives following fresh attacks carried out by Fulani militants on five predominantly Christian communities in northeast Nigeria in recent days. Many of them drowned as they attempted to escape via the local river. Various sources contacted by World Watch […]
(The Telegraph) — The Church of England should avoid only calling God “he,” a bishop has said, as a survey found that young Christians think God is male. Research by YouGov found that almost half of 18-24 year-old Christians believed God to be male, with just one in three over-65s believing the same. Rachel Treweek, […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Two hundred and seventy-one Christians in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been charged with a range of crimes including attempting to convert Hindus through the use of drugs and by spreading lies about Hinduism. Of the 271, just three were named – pastors Durga Prasad Yadav, Kirit Rai […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its way to Garissa, between the towns of Iljara and […]