(Morning Star News) – The 8-year-old boy didn’t realize that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family. The seventh and youngest child of 54-year-old Lezia Nakayiza, widowed since September 2018, he didn’t know that his family was keeping their faith secret in Kasenge village, […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has passed a resolution acknowledging and embracing the “religiously unaffiliated” of society, noting that they have “the potential to deliver millions more votes for Democrats in 2020.” Without specifically mentioning Christians but seemingly alluding to them, the resolution also criticizes those who use religious liberty to “threaten […]
(International Christian Concern) – There have been at least four reported cases of abduction of clergy this month in Kaduna State alone. The first took place on Aug. 4 when gunmen ambushed a pastor, Jeremiah Omolewa of Living Faith Church, and his wife while they were driving. The gunmen killed the pastor and then abducted […]
(International Christian Concern) – Earlier this month, on Aug. 10, Pastor Hemant Meher was attacked and beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals in Dalki village, located in India’s northeastern state of Odisha. Following the attack on the pastor, the radicals initiated a social boycott against the Christian community of Dalki until they either “reconverted” […]
(Independent.ie) — Coronation Street star Antony Cotton lept from ITV’s float during Manchester Pride to confront a group of Christians holding Scripture signs. The actor, who plays Sean Tully in the long-running soap, confronted the group on Peter Street during the annual LGBT parade. Cotton was cheered on by crowds as he swung a rainbow […]
(LifeSite News) — The Drag Queen Story Time’s question-and-answer session didn’t go as planned. After this event at Westcliffe Community Centre in Ottawa on Saturday afternoon, evangelical street preacher Dorre Love responded to an invitation for questions. “I have a question,” Love said. “What are you going to do when you stand before God […]
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia realtor has sued her state real estate board for accusing her of violating Virginia’s Fair Housing Act for posting a Bible verse and other Christian messages on her website, as well as in her email signature. Hadassah Carter says that in 2017, after she sought to help a client that […]
(Mission Network News) — Rumors that China’s Central Government ordered its towns to monitor and count Christians appear to be true. More specifically, Asian Access’ Joe Handley says, “What we’re hearing is they’re following up and wanting to get actual names of those who believe in God. And it’s not just Christianity. It also includes [non-theistic […]
(Morning Star News) – Miguel Pérez Díaz, his eight children and 87-year-old father have been living in a mountainside shack since May, when local officials expelled them from their village in Chiapas state, Mexico. Relatives, friends and neighbors in Tajlovijho, a village in the municipality of San Andrés Larráinzar in southern Mexico, had been harassing […]
(International Christian Concern) – On July 12, in the Maleli village of Nigeria’s Lamu County, Benson Karisa Shida, a Christian crop farmer was attacked by the nomadic Orma herders who are a predominantly Muslim sect. Before the attack, he got into a squabble with the herders because their cattle fed on his maize crops. Benson […]