JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish labor court has upheld a ruling against a midwife who filed suit after being denied employment by several medical facilities because of her convictions not to assist with performing abortions. The court ruled on Wednesday that there is no reason to believe that Ellinor Grimmark’s “freedom of opinion and expression […]
DUNKIRK, France (World Watch Monitor) — Local churches in Dunkirk helped to evacuate terrified migrants on Monday as a devastating fire spread through their camp in northern France. La Linière camp in Grande-Synthe, just outside Dunkirk, housed an estimated 1,500 migrants, including a handful of Christian converts, but has now been reduced to “a heap of ashes”, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The role of religion in society and the rise of populist nationalism are two of the hot issues in the political campaign of the French presidential election. The French will vote in two rounds (April 23 and May 7). Christians should not be expecting a “good, just government”, the representative body of […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A giant statue of a deer stands high above the Mexican town of Bolaños, a symbol of its significance for the locals, who believe a deer-god protects them. The belief dates back to when the Wixárika tribe first arrived in the area, in the western state of Jalisco, and encountered a […]
(Open Doors USA) — It all started with a phone call. Not a phone call from Payam himself but a phone call from his Muslim mother. She was concerned about her son’s behavior. He was selling everything they owned to buy drugs. The 21-year-old was even beating his father for money. “I don’t know what […]
The barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has claimed responsibility for bombings targeting two Egyptian Orthodox houses of worship on Sunday, which left 32 dead and more than 100 injured. “The Crusaders and their tails from the apostates must be aware that the bill between us and […]
(Newsweek) — Swedish police have arrested a man they suspect rammed a hijacked beer delivery truck into a crowd in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen in what they called a terror crime. While police declined to comment on the identity or possible motive of the man, who […]
STRASBOURG, France — The European Court of Human Rights is set to hear the case of a German family that was forced to send their children to public school after they were seized by the government because they were homeschooled. “I sincerely hope the European Court of Human Rights will reaffirm that the state has […]
STOCKHOLM (New York Times) — A man drove a stolen beer truck into a crowd of people in a popular shopping district in Stockholm on Friday afternoon and then rammed it into a department store, killing four people and injuring 15 others in an attack that unleashed bloodshed and panic on the streets of another […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Christians in Morocco still live clandestinely but have just presented a series or requests to an official institution. This is what Mustafa Susi, spokesperson of the newly created National Coordination of Moroccan Christians, told news agency Efe. According to Protestante Digital, the meeting happened in Rabat on April 3. The delegation of […]