(Barnabas Aid) — The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the official Protestant church of China, has pledged to follow Chinese Communist Party (CCP) directives on the management of religions, including supervision of churches and their finances. The TSPM was one of seven state-authorized religious groups to sign a joint statement agreeing to implement policies outlined by […]
(The Christian Institute) — Violent sex acts have been portrayed as normal on a website aimed at over 14s by a sex and relationships educator. Justin Hancock, who runs the sex advice website BISH, claims that acts such as choking someone during sex are “quite common” among adults and young people. Hancock provides Relationships and […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Police in Sudan walked into a church Bible class on Tuesday (June 14) and arrested two Christian leaders for “violating public order,” their attorney said. Officers in Omdurman, across the Nile River from Khartoum, took Pastor Kabashi Idris of the African Inland Church and evangelist Yacoub Ishakh of the […]
(The Christian Institute) — Male prisoners in Canada who identify as women can ask to be placed in female-only prisons. A recent directive from the Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) will see newly sentenced offenders placed according to their chosen gender identity rather than their biological sex. Offenders already in prison may apply to transfer […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Nearly two months after police arrested a pastor in India from his grandmother’s home, tied him to a tree and beat him, threats from officers and others have kept him from filing a complaint on the brutality, sources said. Pastor Pravesh Kumar of Amamahua, Uttar Pradesh state was visiting a […]
(Barnabas Aid) — Gunmen abducted an assistant pastor and a Sunday school teacher in a raid on a church service in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. Assistant pastor Oluwaseun Ajose and Dagunro Ayobami were taken from the church building in Wasimi, a rural area of Ewekoro Local Government Area, shortly before midnight on June 13. A […]
EAST YORKSHIRE, UK (The Christian Institute) — A baby has died after his mother took an abortion pill when she was 30 weeks pregnant. Despite desperate attempts to save the little boy, named Ronnie, he died four days later at a maternity unit in Sheffield. According to a coroner’s inquest, the mother from East Yorkshire […]
Nigeria (Mission Network News) — 2022 is on pace to be a record year for violence against Christians in Nigeria. BBC News reports that the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 31 attacks on churches and people linked to them in 2021. Halfway through 2022, there have been more than 23 separate […]
International (Mission Network News) — With any group project, it’s essential to know who is doing what so you’re all on the same page. Apply that concept to the global “group project” of Bible translation, and you have the Forum of Bible Agencies International or FOBAI. “[FOBAI] includes names that some readers and listeners may […]
NANSANA, Uganda (Morning Star News) – A woman in central Uganda who accepted Christ at a church service on May 29 was killed later that day when her father stabbed her in the eyes for leaving Islam, sources said. After having several dreams about Christ, 28-year-old Hawa Amoti of Nansana, Wakiso District visited a Christian neighbor […]