(Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda and eight other Christians are missing two weeks after a Muslim mob attacked a church prayer meeting, locked the congregation in, beat several members and raped 15 women, sources said. The approximately 90 Muslims broke into the evening prayer meeting of Katira Church of Uganda, in […]
(The Scottish Sun) — A female Dutch doctor who drugged an elderly euthanasia patient and then gave her a lethal injection despite her fighting not to be killed has been cleared. The medic allegedly put the drug in the woman’s coffee in order to calm her but she later awoke as she was being injected. The […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The Gutenberg Bible, preserved in the National Library of France (BnF), can be consulted online at Gallica, the institution’s digital library. “The two copies preserved in the BnF can now be consulted in Gallica. A summary have been added, to make the navigation of the biblical text more comfortable and to satisfy […]
(The Independent) — The Netherlands is seeking to set up an overseas abortion fund to counteract Donald Trump’s recent ban against funding international groups which give women information about terminations. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen for the Dutch government has announced she intends to establish an international fund which would finance […]
(The Christian Institute) — Thousands of Scottish teenagers have been treated for drink or drug related abuse, new figures have revealed. Figures obtained by STV News found that more than 4,000 teens required care or were referred to substance abuse services during the past four years. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde reported the highest number […]
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking. A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. […]
(World Watch Monitor) — The leader of a Sri Lankan church destroyed by a mob earlier this month has vowed that the church will continue to meet. Kamal Wasantha, leader of the Kithu Sevana prayer centre, told Asia News, “No attack can stop us. We shall continue to meet and pray under a tree.” Despite […]
KIRKUK, Iraq — A report out of Iraq states that a mother and her four children were recently burned alive by the barbaric Islamic group ISIS for leaving the jurisdiction of the caliphate. “Members of the Islamic State burned a whole family that consisted of a mother and four children (three girls and a 9-month-old […]
(The Christian Institute) — Buddhist chanting, a pagan “blessing” and the Islamic call to prayer have all featured at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the launch of a multi-faith art exhibition. “Faith” features large portraits of 35 individuals from numerous religions—including Zoroastrians, Druids and Baha’is. It comes after a passage from the Koran denying that […]
(Christian Concern) — A Christian evangelist has been cleared of threatening and abusive behavior at a trial in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Gordon Larmour was charged with behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation” and “assault” after he shared the Christian position on homosexual practice with some young men in […]