KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Baptist Press) — A Malaysian pastor threatened with death for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity remains missing more than a year after his February 2017 kidnapping in Kuala Lumpur, a family friend confirmed to Baptist Press today (March 26). The family of 63-year-old Raymond Koh has heard nothing of his whereabouts […]
A Christian woman in Nigeria simply known as “Mama” is taking care of more than 50 children in her home in the midst of the orphan crisis that continues from the Fulani attacks and other violence in the country’s Middle Belt. According to International Christian Concern (ICC), Mama has been taking in children for at least six years, […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria retained the only Christian among more than 100 kidnapped girls who were freed last week, prompting the head of her church denomination to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to obtain her release. Boko Haram refused to release Leah Nathan Sharibu, 15, because she would not renounce […]
(The Christian Institute) — A homosexual clergyman who was disciplined for violating Church of England teaching on marriage has lost his case at the Court of Appeal. Canon Jeremy Pemberton entered into a same-sex “marriage” in 2014, despite Church of England rules not allowing clergy to do so. The court said the Church had applied […]
At least two online petitions are expressing concern over a Canadian ice cream chain, which some Christians consider to be blasphemous in the way it uses the Lord’s name and distorts the cross of Christ. The chain “Sweet Jesus” was founded in 2015 by Andrew Richmond and Amin Todai, and is stated to have been named after an employee’s […]
PU’ER, Yunnan (ChinaAid) — A court in China’s southern Yunnan province sentenced a North Carolina pastor to seven years in prison Friday and heavily fined him on a trumped up charge of “organizing illegal border crossing.” His colleague also received a one-year jail sentence and a fine. John Cao, a North Carolina pastor well-respected for […]
(World Watch Monitor) — The father of a Nigerian Christian girl kidnapped from her school in February says he is torn between concern for his daughter and encouragement that she refuses her abductors’ demands that she abandon her Christian faith. The girl, identified as Leah Sharibu, 15, by International Christian Concern, is one of 110 […]
(World Watch Monitor) — An Ethiopian court has turned down the appeal of an evangelical Christian sentenced to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling.” In its verdict, published on March 19, the court upheld an earlier sentence given by a judge in the southern city of Arba Minch on […]
GENEVA — A woman with Down syndrome recently addressed the United Nations in Geneva to decry what she sees as eugenics against those who have an extra chromosome. “The future of Down syndrome is in grave danger. Around the world, more than 90 percent of babies found to have Down syndrome are aborted up to […]
(Haaretz) — Three would-be tomb raiders in northern Israel were recently jailed for breaking into Galilee graves dating to biblical times, using a small bulldozer, no less. The robbers were caught red-handed in the ancient biblical town of Mishkana, also known as Maskana, and were foiled before they could do too much damage to the […]