TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Interrupting a worship service, police on Tuesday (Aug. 6) sealed a church building in north-central Algeria, less than three months after locking shut another site in the same area. “I am deeply saddened by so much injustice – it breaks my heart,” pastor Messaoud Takilt told Morning Star News. “This is […]
HEBRON — Large fortifications dating to the time of the biblical king David have been found below an archaeological dig site already thought to be Gath, the hometown of the giant Philistine Goliath. The walls, made of 3-6 foot stone blocks and large burnt bricks, were found at Tell es-Safi, a hill dig site not far […]
(Bitter Winter) — On June 23, local government officials launched a joint operation, separately arriving at each meeting venue of True Love Church, a part of the Sola Fide network of house churches, to seal off the church and arrest the church’s leaders. About 10 personnel from the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau and Public […]
(Bitter Winter) — Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into effect in 2018, all places of worship that are not part of the official, CCP-run religious institutions face the risk of being eliminated altogether and forced to be put under the state’s control. To continue adhering to their faith, many house church Christians […]
NEW DELHI (Washington Post) — India said Monday it was revoking a constitutional provision granting certain autonomous powers to Indian-controlled Kashmir, setting the stage for new clashes in the disputed region. The move followed a tense night during which Indian authorities put prominent politicians under house arrest in Srinagar, Kashmir’s capital, and cut off […]
(BioEdge) — In a stunning example of evading ethical controversy by exporting it, Spanish and American researchers have created monkey-human chimeras in China. The hybrid embryos will be destroyed after they develop a central nervous system and will not be brought to term. The experiment is ethically risky. What if the human stem cells develop […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attorney representing Christians threatened at a wedding in northern India – with police joining in the verbal abuse and then arresting the Christians – couldn’t believe what was now happening to him. Attorney Harjinder Singh had gone to the workplace of the Sikh leader who organized the disruption […]
WASHINGTON — The White House recently retweeted a post from openly homosexual Ambassador to Germany Rick Grenell, noting that the Trump administration has launched a “global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality” and inviting all nations to join the effort. “We stand in solidarity with LGBT people in countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals […]
CABARET — At least four more young men have come forward as victims of a U.S.-based aid worker who is believed to have abused dozens of boys in Haiti, and two top officials of the Amish-Mennonite Christian Aid Ministries (CAM) who had allowed the worker to return to the field despite his confession of child […]
(The Christian Institute) — A mother is suing the NHS for over £200,000 for failing to diagnose her son with Down syndrome. Edyta Mordel from Reading told the High Court she would have aborted the child if she knew he had the condition. Mordel is suing for the costs of caring for her son, […]