Attacks on Pakistani Sites of Worship Fuel Cultural Violence

Attacks on Pakistani Sites of Worship Fuel Cultural Violence

Pakistan (Mission Network News) — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is taking notice of attacks on places of worship. In countries like Pakistan, worship sites of minority religions are frequently targeted with violence. Forgotten Missionaries International (FMI) Executive Director Bruce Allen often hears reports from the field of attacks on Pakistani churches. […]

No Word on Fate of Pastor, Co-Worker Three Months After Kidnap From US-Mexico Border

No Word on Fate of Pastor, Co-Worker Three Months After Kidnap From US-Mexico Border

(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — There have been no developments in the case of a protestant pastor and a co-worker who forcibly disappeared on Aug. 3 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Pastor Aarón Méndez Ruiz and Alfredo Castillo de Luna were kidnapped from the AMAR migrant shelter, in Nuevo Laredo on the US-Mexico border, after Méndez Ruiz […]

HHS Proposes Rule to Protect Convictions of Govt. Funded Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies

HHS Proposes Rule to Protect Convictions of Govt. Funded Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule that would provide protections for faith-based foster and adoption agencies that otherwise might lose federal grant funds for operating in accordance with their religious convictions — namely in declining to place children in households where there is not both a mother […]

Charges Against Disabled Man Arrested for Praying Outside UK Abortion Facility Dropped

Charges Against Disabled Man Arrested for Praying Outside UK Abortion Facility Dropped

 LONDON (Christian Concern) — A Christian man who was arrested and prosecuted for peacefully praying outside a London abortion clinic has seen the charges against dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service, thanks to support from the Christian Legal Centre. The arrest and case raise the question of whether praying in a public space now […]

Research: Britons No Longer See Euthanasia, Pornography, Drugs as ‘Immoral’

Research: Britons No Longer See Euthanasia, Pornography, Drugs as ‘Immoral’

(Evangelical Focus) — Abortion, pornography, drugs, homosexual relationships — these are some of the issues which most British people no longer consider to be “immoral.” Kings’ College in London compared figures of 1989 with opinion polls conducted this year on a range of moral issues. In the last 30 years later, there has been a […]

Baptists Fined in Eastern Ukraine, Detained and Beaten in Uzbekistan

Baptists Fined in Eastern Ukraine, Detained and Beaten in Uzbekistan

(Evangelical Focus) — Pro-Russian rebels seized parts of Ukraine’s Luhansk Region in March 2014 and the following month proclaimed what they called the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), which currently controls about a third of the region. The unrecognized LPR has banned worship in all Protestant churches and … courts punish individuals who lead worship meetings in […]

Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Screen Printer Who Declined Order for ‘Gay Pride’ T-Shirts

Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Against Screen Printer Who Declined Order for ‘Gay Pride’ T-Shirts

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against an expressly Christian screen printing business accused of discrimination for declining to print shirts for a “gay pride” parade. While the court did not rule on the merits of the issue, it rather found that the suing organization lacked standing in the case […]