HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Pastor Ramnivas Kumar had been attacked before, but in the latest instance he was stunned that police in eastern India arrested his bleeding guests based on transparently false accusations that they were robbers, he said. Christians Avinash Kumar and Rambali Ram were visiting Pastor Kumar’s home in Ranjitpur village, Bihar state […]
ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Georgia has upheld an injunction against a Florida school district policy that prohibited a female student who identified as male from using the men’s restroom. “A public school may not punish its students for gender nonconformity. Neither may a public school harm transgender students by establishing arbitrary, […]
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Christian Solidarity Worldwide has learned that a 40-year-old Syrian Kurdish man was arrested and accused of apostasy by Failaq Al-Sham, an Islamist group loyal to Turkey, on July 30. Local sources report that fighters from Failaq Al-Sham arrested Radwan Muhammad at his home in the village of Jaqmaq Kibir near Rajo, […]
LEAWOOD, Kan. — The wife of a Baptist pastor in Kansas disappeared more than a week ago while traveling to Alabama to be present for the birth of her sister’s baby and to obtain help for mental health issues. According to reports, Marilane Carter, 36, the wife of Leawood Baptist Church pastor Adam Carter, kept […]
The Hallmark Channel, whose parent company advised last month that it would be including “LGBT” themes in its holiday lineup at the end of 2020, is not waiting until December to incorporate the sin of homosexuality into its original movie lineup. In what is believed to be a first for the network, online videos promoting […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A coalition of Liberty University alumni, students and faculty have launched a petition requesting that the Board of Trustees permanently remove Jerry Falwell Jr. from his position as president and “replace him with a responsible and virtuous Christian leader.” Save71 states that it is not just the recent unzipped pants photo taken […]
PASO ROBLES, Calif. — A district attorney in California recently declared his county a “sanctuary for worship and praise in church.” A video posted to YouTube shows San Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow speaking at an Independence Day gathering in Paso Robles, where he spoke about his concerns regarding the state ban on singing […]
(Barnabas Fund) — Two pastors in Kazakhstan have appealed directly to the country’s president, asking him to stop local authorities seizing the land on which their churches stand. City authorities in the capital Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) have ordered the confiscation of the Grace Presbyterian Church building and the Agape Pentecostal Church building, which was under […]
(The Christian Institute) — A woman born with spina bifida who doctors thought would die shortly after birth recently celebrated her 60th birthday. Carmel Proctor was diagnosed with myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida, when she was born on August 8, 1960, and she initially struggled with very poor health. Her parents later told […]
SALEM, Mass. — The Satanic Temple (TST), which describes itself as non-theistic and considers Satan a metaphor for autonomy and rebellion rather than a literal being, has announced the creation of a “ritual” to be conducted whenever a woman obtains an abortion in an effort to obtain an exemption from state abortion regulations under the […]