(Open Doors USA) — The last thing 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 […]
Iran (Mission Network News) – We’ve been hearing how the Church in Iran is the fastest growing church in the world. But the shape of the Church is actually underground and in the form of numerous, individual house churches—and the Iranian government wants to shut them down. Church Growth Despite Challenges Ironically, the Iranian government […]
BERLIN (Associated Press) — German prosecutors said Monday they were notified that a former Nazi death camp guard dubbed the “Accountant of Auschwitz” died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence. Hannover prosecutor Kathrin Soefker said a lawyer informed her office that Oskar Groening, 96, died Friday in a hospital. The office is awaiting […]
(Morning Star News) — In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a suspended prison sentence under a law that prohibits causing Muslims to doubt their religion, sources said. In Frenda, Tiaret Province, Nordine B. was ordered to pay a […]
LONDON — The parents of an infant boy in the U.K. are mourning the loss of their son after he died at the end of a harrowing legal battle on Wednesday. Isaiah Haastrup’s life support was removed Wednesday afternoon after an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights was denied. The 12-month-old breathed on […]
A Chinese boy who was featured in a documentary last year about children in China who live in medical orphanages has now been adopted and lives with his forever family in Singapore. As previously reported, Wu Keyuan, now 8, was born without external ears and ear canals and had been abandoned outside an orphanage just a few days […]
(The Christian Institute) — Freedom of religion is under attack in the UK today from “aggressive secularists” and the religiously illiterate, a Christian MP has said. Fiona Bruce made the statement during a debate on freedom of religion and belief in Westminster Hall. The debate was led by Jim Shannon MP, chairman of the All-Party […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Six pastors have been arrested and accused of “masterminding” a ploy to disobey the Rwandan government’s order to shut down over 700 churches in one province. The pastors were alleged to have held “illegal meetings with bad intentions,” the BBC reported. The churches in the central province of Kigali were ordered […]
(Newsweek) — A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 “actively gay” priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples. The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ “hypocrisy” any longer. “The aim is […]
(World Watch Monitor) — An arson attack on a small Baptist church in Kyrgyzstan has not deterred the congregation from meeting. The 40 Kyrgyz and Russian members of the church feared for their safety when attackers set fire to their church on Jan. 2. They were told by police that the attack was “organized by […]