(The Christian Institute) — A judge has ruled that exclusively Christian RE lessons in Northern Irish primary schools are unlawful. Currently, provisions in the Education and Libraries (NI) Order 1986 mean that RE lessons and daily collective worship (CW) such as assemblies must focus on Christianity. But a legal challenge was launched against the NI […]
(Barnabas Aid) — The Tajikistan government will not register any more churches, the senior state religious affairs official has announced. Sulaymon Davlatzoda, the Chair of the State Committee for Religious Affairs and Regulation of Traditions, Ceremonies and Rituals, informed Christian leaders of the decision when summoning them to a meeting in the capital Dushanbe in […]
(The Christian Institute) — Gender confused girls as young as 15 should be allowed to have double mastectomies, a global pro-trans organization has recommended. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (Wpath) is an unofficial group which recommends “standards of care” for transgender people. Other advice includes cross-sex hormones for children as young as 14 […]
(The Christian Institute) — A conservative member of U.K. parliament has called on the government to produce stronger guidance to end the “plethora of deeply inappropriate” Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) materials being used in schools. Miriam Cates, a Christian, explained that when RSE was made compulsory in secondary schools from September 2020, it “opened […]
KIRYOLO, Uganda (Morning Star News) – Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda killed him on Sunday (July 3), a witness said. Simolya Latifu of Molu village, Kasasira Sub-County, Kibuku District was slain with a sword at about 7:15 p.m. at a swamp near Molu, the witness said. […]
(Barnabas Aid) — Myanmar’s military have carried out a series of airstrikes on two villages in Christian-majority Chin State, killing two civilians and injuring several others. During the bombing of Tsun Taung and Chat in Mindat township on July 2, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, deliberately targeted a church and a school, according to […]
(Article18) — Three house-church members who have been held for over a month in solitary confinement have now been informed that their appeals against five-year prison sentences have been rejected. Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, all members of the “Church of Iran” in Rasht, were re-arrested early last month, despite already facing imprisonment […]
(Christian Aid Mission) — Neighbors who came to help a 48-year-old refugee widow from Syria thought she was 70. The mother of seven children, Ranim* showed the signs of affliction from the suffering she’d endured before and after arriving in Jordan. Islamic State (ISIS) invaders in Syria had seized her oldest son and, fearing they […]
(The Christian Institute) — Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she intends to trial censorship zones around abortion clinics in Scotland. Speaking at a summit on abortion in Edinburgh, the First Minister backed MSP Gillian Mackay’s Bill seeking to create 150m buffer zones around hospitals and abortion centers. In similar zones in other countries, people have […]
(Article 18) — A Protestant Church-owned retreat center appropriated four years ago by an institution headed by Iran’s Supreme Leader is now in the process of being repurposed, Article18 understands. The Garden of Sharon in Karaj, which has belonged to the Iranian Assemblies of God (AoG) denomination since the early 1970s, has been out of […]