3-year-old twins with fused brains separated with help of VR

3-year-old twins with fused brains separated with help of VR

(The Christian Institute) — A pair of Brazilian twins with fused brains have become the oldest children in the world with the condition to be successfully separated, with the help of virtual reality. The family of three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima were originally told that surgery would not be possible, but UK charity Gemini Untwined […]

Muslim Extremists in Uganda Kill Evangelist at His Home

Muslim Extremists in Uganda Kill Evangelist at His Home

Mosque in Uganda. (ctsnow’s, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on July 29 came to the home of an evangelist who had held open-air events in eastern Uganda and killed him, sources said. Cut with a sharp instrument that left his head and neck with deep wounds, Sozi Odongo was killed at […]

Teenage girl warns of danger of transgender ‘treatments’

Teenage girl warns of danger of transgender ‘treatments’

 (The Christian Institute) — A 17-year-old girl has shared her traumatic experience of “sex swap” hormones and surgery and why she subsequently “de-transitioned.” Chloe Cole was given puberty-blocking drugs at the age of 14 before going on to cross-sex hormones and undergoing a double mastectomy when she was just 15. Speaking at a public […]

Indonesia’s New Criminal Code Revealed, Modernizing the Controversial Anti-Blasphemy Laws

Indonesia’s New Criminal Code Revealed, Modernizing the Controversial Anti-Blasphemy Laws

The newest draft of the Indonesian Government’s Criminal Code Revision has been revealed, reinforcing its anti-blasphemy laws, and creating new provisions which will disproportionately impact Christians and other religious minorities. 07/13/2022 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) obtained the final draft of Indonesia’s revised criminal code. The revision strengthens the country’s […]

No new churches to be registered, Tajikistan government announces

No new churches to be registered, Tajikistan government announces

(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 […]

Transgender advocacy group recommends sex swap surgery for 15-year-olds

Transgender advocacy group recommends sex swap surgery for 15-year-olds

(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 […]

UK member of Parliament calls for end to ‘deeply inappropriate’ and ‘explicit’ sex ed materials

UK member of Parliament calls for end to ‘deeply inappropriate’ and ‘explicit’ sex ed materials

(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 […]

Iranian house church members’ prison sentences for ‘deviant beliefs’ upheld

Iranian house church members’ prison sentences for ‘deviant beliefs’ upheld

(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 […]