(The Insider) — The 26-year-old American who police say was killed by a remote Indian tribe last week, said he believed God helped him dodge authorities and reach the isolated island he referred to as “Satan’s last stronghold.” John Allen Chau, a tourist and Christian missionary from Washington state, wrote in a final diary entry […]
(World Watch Monitor) — Two Congolese pastors were among the seven Christians killed in attacks by an Islamist militant group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. Six Christians, including Kausa Kaule Yosua and his daughter, 27-year-old Masika, were killed in the 10 and 11 November attacks by members of the Allied Democratic […]
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released its annual “abortion surveillance” report, showing that abortion rates are continuing to fall in the United States, but still more than 638,000 babies were murdered in 2015. “A total of 638,169 abortions for 2015 were reported to CDC,” the organization wrote, outlining the latest year on record. “Among the […]
NEW YORK — Thursday’s annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featured two women kissing during a performance of the Broadway musical “The Prom,” a story about a lesbian who is prohibited from taking her girlfriend to the prom. The cast of the show performed a song from the musical shortly after the opening of the broadcast, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Although recent state government reports indicate that in Chiapas, Mexico the problems due to religious differences are being adequately addressed, religious intolerance continues—especially affecting evangelical Christians. At the end of September, evangelical Christians in the region suffered a new attack after the death of an evangelical woman. Village authorities in Ranchera Yocnajab […]
OSHAWA, Ontario — A woman in Canada who is in a same-sex relationship recently took to Facebook and the media to express her objection after her church revoked her membership status as she had been repeatedly urged to repent of homosexuality but would not heed the counsel of her pastoral leadership. Kimberley Mills, a former […]
A wedding magazine led by a couple in Australia has shut down as being “no longer economically viable” after a number of advertisers pulled their support due to public complaints that the magazine had not featured homosexuals in its pages. White Magazine, led by Luke and Carla Burrell, announced the closure on Saturday, outlining that […]
(The Christian Institute) — A young mother has shared her anger at how keen doctors were to abort her baby when they believed he had Down syndrome. Jordan Squires, 22, said she and her husband Jonathan would love their child regardless of the disability. But she fears for others: “When you’ve been told your baby […]
Cameroon (Mission Network News) — The stakes are high and believers are running out of places to go as Cameroon wages war on two fronts. Illia Djadi, the Africa bureau chief at World Watch Monitor, describes a Boko Haram insurgency in northern Cameroon. “Ministers in that area are not safe,” he notes. “They had to […]
SMITHVILLE, Texas — Some parents at a public school in Texas have voiced a complaint after a first grade teacher recently posted a video online showing her students reciting a Bible verse. The video, recorded at Brown Primary School in Smithville, shows children sitting in a circle and reciting in unison a paraphrase of Romans 12:9-10. […]