(Christian Times) — A Turkish court has denied the appeal for release of an American pastor who was imprisoned for allegedly being a member of an armed terrorist organization. Pastor Andrew Brunson was initially detained with his wife, Norine, on Oct. 7 in the coastal city of Izmir. The couple, who have been living in Turkey […]
(Morning Star News) – After more than three years, the leadership of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) remains in the hands of government-appointed committee members even after a court ruled in November that the appointments were illegal, sources said. Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment appointed a group to run the SPEC offices […]
(The Mirror) — The memory of her tiny baby’s body lying lifeless in the dust at the base of a tree tortures Amina. It was less than two months ago she fled through the vast Sambisa forest in north east Nigeria, in a desperate bid to escape Islamic terror group Boko Haram. She had been […]
MANILA, Philippines (The Philippine Star) — Do you have a problem with his mouth? Complain to God. That was President Duterte’s advice yesterday to those not comfortable with his foul mouth as he has no plans to change the way he talks just to please his critics. “If you have something against me, about my mouth, […]
(Los Angeles Times) — Iraqi security forces launched the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State in the key city of Mosul on Thursday, advancing into the city with U.S. forces embedded closer to the front line than in the past. While Iraqi counterterrorism and army units pushed forward from the north and east […]
Syria (Mission Network News) — While the conflict in Syria intensifies, it seems as if Americans—specifically Christians—are only becoming more apathetic. According to a survey by World Vision, 38 percent of those who described themselves as committed Christians had taken action for refugees in the past two years—a six percent drop from 2015. In 2015, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Coinciding with the fifth centenary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, the State Library of the German city of Berlin will exhibit three of the seven original prints of Martin Luther’s 95 theses that are still preserved. Published in 1517, they laid the theological foundations for one of the most important political, […]
(Associated Press) — The children told prosecutors the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormentors would have heard their cries because the other children at the school were deaf. The clerical sex abuse scandal unfolding at […]
(The Christian Institute) — Marie Stopes treats women like they are on a conveyor belt, a woman who decided to keep her baby has said. Jade Stevens, who visited a Marie Stopes clinic in 2015, said she was pressured into an abortion by nurses and was accused of “wasting their time” when she changed her […]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The Christian owners of a bakery in Northern Ireland state that they plan to appeal to the U.K. Supreme Court a lower court ruling declaring them guilty of discrimination for declining to print the phrase “Support Gay Marriage” on a cake. “The Ashers Baking Company has confirmed that it plans to launch […]