(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 […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the pastor told Morning Star News. Pastor Haleem Feroze Masih of the King Jesus Church in Burewala, 155 miles (251 kilometers) southwest […]
MIANGO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian, sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before. “These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this area for some time now by these armed herdsmen, and we don’t know precisely why they […]
(Open Doors USA) — Nineteen-year-old Reena has never known anything else other than that persecution was part of being a Christian in India. Her parents came to faith when she was very young. “Nobody wanted to play with me because they were Hindus and I wasn’t,” she says, remembering how it was growing up as […]