MELBOURNE, Australia (Morning Star News) – Police in Australia on Friday arrested seven suspected Islamic terrorists after thwarting a planned bomb attack on three sites in Melbourne, including St. Paul’s Cathedral. Some 400 heavily-armed police raided homes in five of Melbourne’s northwestern suburbs. The raids reportedly culminated weeks of intensive investigations and monitoring by Victoria Police, Australian […]
Russia (Mission Network News) — Earlier this week, a state of emergency was called in Siberia after 49 people died of alcohol poisoning. According to the Washington Post, they died after consuming a bath oil they hoped would give them a buzz. Historically, Russia has struggled with alcohol abuse. In 2014, the BBC reported a study […]
BERLIN (New York Times) — Investigators undertook a Europe-wide manhunt on Wednesday for a young Tunisian ex-convict with multiple aliases who had been denied asylum in Germany and was considered a security risk, linking him to a deadly truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market. The attack on Monday killed 12 people and wounded 48 […]
(The Christian Institute) — Promising to remain faithful will no longer be a legal requirement for marriages in Italy, if a controversial new bill is passed. Supporters of the bill to remove the word “fidelity” from marriage contracts, claim that faithfulness in marriage is “outdated and obsolete.” The proposal has already been backed by the […]
(TN News Service) — Fatal attacks by apparent terrorists occurred Sunday and Monday in Germany, Turkey, Libya, and Jordan. An attack in Switzerland resulted in three persons wounded by gunshots. The attacks came after the U.S. State Department issued a statement in November warning the ISIS and al-Qaida may be planning attacks on public areas […]
(The Christian Institute) — A British same-sex couple who currently have four boys and a girl are set to use sex selection of embryos in a bid to obtain female triplets. Sex selection is only allowed in the UK on strict medical grounds, so the pair plan to have the procedure in the USA. Barrie […]
(The Christian Institute) — Students at the University of Oxford could be expelled if they fail to use ‘gender neutral’ pronouns, it has been revealed. The Sunday Times reported that under the university’s behaviour guidelines, students and staff are now required to use the gender neutral pronouns ‘zie’ or ‘ey’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’ […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The young Christian Ami Ortiz was seriously injured when he was only a teenager in 2008. He opened a bomb package that was delivered at his house. It had been sent by Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, an “ultra-Orthodox Jewish terrorist” sentenced in 2013 to two life sentences plus 30 years for several murders, […]
(World Watch Monitor) — While violent attacks on Christians at the hands of Islamist militants Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen in the northeast and Middle Belt of Nigeria have captured media attention, the persistent social pressures Christians face elsewhere go mostly unnoticed. Despite common misperceptions that they are a minority across the north of […]
Russia (Mission Network News) — He’s traveled to Russia more times than can be counted, and the country continues to hold a special place in his heart. Orphan Outreach President Mike Douris remembers the first conversations with the Department of Education shortly after the Soviet Union fell. Government-run orphanages were filled to capacity with children who not […]