TORONTO — Pro-life groups are expressing concern after employees with Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children recently penned an essay outlining that they had been asked to develop a policy on how to respond to Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) requests at the hospital, and noting that the policy—although applying to those 18 and older—was also […]
(Coalition for Marriage) — A quarter of young people back temporary marriages, while almost one in three back “fluid arrangements,” according to a major new poll for the Coalition for Marriage. The survey of over 2,000 members of the public found that young people were more likely to support polygamy, further changes to civil partnerships […]
(Fox News) — A unique 2,000-year-old stone inscription unearthed in Israel has thrilled archaeologists. The find is the first full spelling of “Jerusalem” on a stone inscription, archaeologists recently confirmed. The artifact was found last winter during an excavation in the area of Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, known as Binyanei Ha’Uma. Part of a stone […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Pastor Mathai Varghese was beaten and abducted by Hindu extremists in Rajasthan state, India, police gave chase and arrested the kidnappers – as well as the pastor. His car ruined and his body bloodied, he spent a night and the next day in jail with serious injuries unattended before […]
(International Christian Concern) — Mading Zai Dan Bawm Ying is one of two Kachin youth pastors beaten by members of the Myanmar army-based Border Guard Force (BGF) last July while trying to protect Christian homes from being destroyed. International Christian Concern (ICC) recently visited Pastor Zai Dan Bawm Ying in Kachin State to discuss what […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Sudanese security officials arrested 13 Christians in the western region of Darfur on Saturday. The Christians were taken from a home they share in the city of Nyala, southwest Darfur, by officials belonging to the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) but it is not clear on what charges, a local […]
(Evangelical Focus) — U.S. and Canadian Christian worker David Byle could leave Turkey after 15 years in the country. The evangelist was detained in the Ankara central train station on October 13 after an ID check. He was taken to the Anti-Terror department for interrogation, and released the following day, according to Middle East Concern. […]
India (Mission Network News) – India is home to more unreached people groups than any other nation, and the numbers of unengaged people will continue escalating according to World Mission’s Greg Kelley. “Within the next 20 years, not only will it be the most populated Hindu country in the world, but it will simultaneously be […]
(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has killed an aid worker as an “apostate” from Islam and vowed to keep kidnapped high school girl Leah Sharibu as a “slave for life,” Nigerian news outlet The Cable reported. Leah, kidnapped along with more than 100 schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe state in February but […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Two Christian school teachers were killed in an attack by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in Kenya’s Mandera County, near the Somali border, last week. Philip Okumu, 26, and Daniel Wekesa 39, died on Wednesday (Oct. 10) after assailants raided the house for non-local teachers in Arabia Boys Secondary, about one kilometre from […]