LONDON — During a recent debate at London’s Westminster Hall surrounding a proposal to enact “public space protection orders,” or buffer zones, around area abortion facilities, one lawmaker read a statement from a mother who said that her child “would not be alive today” if pro-lifers were not allowed to reach women as they enter […]
(Daily Mail) — Boys as young as five should be able to wear tiaras at school without criticism, teachers in Church of England schools are to be told. Male pupils should also be free to dress up in a tutu or high heels without attracting any comment or observation, according to anti-bullying rules sent out […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Appeal hearings will take place on Sunday (Nov. 12) for an Iranian and three Azerbaijani Christians sentenced in May to 10 years in prison for “missionary activities” and “actions against national security” in Iran. The three Azerbaijanis – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Bahram Nasibov – were allowed to leave Iran in […]
(The Christian Institute) — The incredible potential of adult stem cell treatments has once again been demonstrated, this time by a team of scientists in Germany. Scientists have grown replacement skin for a seven-year-old boy suffering from a devastating genetic disorder. The achievement is one of the most impressive examples of adult stem cell treatment, […]
(World Watch Monitor) — A court in northern Kazakhstan has given a Baptist man a one-year suspended prison sentence for refusing to pay fines for the state to give its “expert analysis” of Christian books he had with him at the time of his arrest. Yuri Bekker had also failed to pay outstanding fines for […]
(The Christian Institute) — Doctors in Canada have reported an increase in conversations about legalizing assisted suicide for children – just a year after the practice was first allowed for adults. A new survey by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) claimed that its members are “increasingly” being asked by parents about the option of helping […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led a southern village’s first five families to faith in Christ, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him in […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in Coimbatore District to stop worship unless they obtain permission from the collector’s office, and the extremists intend to […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Pakistan should be designated a “country of particular concern” because of its violations of religious freedom, according to a group of influential US senators. Senators Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, Chris Coons, Todd Young, Jeff Merkley and James Lankford wrote to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of the Nov. 13 deadline […]
GUIYANG, Guizhou (China Aid) — An imprisoned house church pastor filed a lawsuit against local government departments in China’s southern Guizhou province on Oct. 10, claiming his religious freedom had been violated and that a fine was wrongly imposed on him, ChinaAid learned recently. Li Guozhi, who is known by his alias, Yang Hua, pastored […]