French Evangelicals Decry ‘Fatherless Assisted Reproduction’ That Turns Children Into ‘Products’
(Evangelical Focus) — France will approve a new bioethics law later this year which is expected to shape the future relationship between technology and human life. It is with this horizon in mind that the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE
Bibles Pulled From Online Stores as China Increases Control of Religion
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Mormon President Announces Plans for Temples in Russia, India, Nicaragua
Photo Credit: Wikipedia/User DannyWSUSALT LAKE CITY (Associated Press) — The Mormon church has announced plans to build seven new temples, including one in Russia where Mormon missionaries are known as “volunteers” and banned by that country’s law from publicly proselytizing.
Child in Kazakhstan Church Triggers Police Raid
Photo Credit: Wikipedia(World Watch Monitor) — A senior police officer in the southern Kazakh city of Kyzylorda has defended sending anti-extremism officers to investigate the presence of a child in church, reports regional news agency Forum 18. Kuanishbek Urazov, Head
Baptism Service Violently Halted by Hindu Mob Claiming ‘Forced Conversions’
(World Watch Monitor) — Around 20 Hindu extremists in saffron-coloured clothes barged inside a church in eastern India’s Uttar Pradesh state yesterday (March 28), violently assaulting the pastor and two church members. Shouting in extremely offensive language, they entered the
Kidnapped Nigerian Girl ‘Will Never Become a Muslim,’ Father Says
Photo Credit: Elvis Santana(World Watch Monitor) — The father of a Nigerian Christian girl kidnapped from her school in February says he is torn between concern for his daughter and encouragement that she refuses her abductors’ demands that she abandon
Ethiopian Evangelical Loses Appeal Against Prison Sentence for ‘Causing Outrage to Religious Peace and Feeling’
Photo Credit: Johnny Marou(World Watch Monitor) — An Ethiopian court has turned down the appeal of an evangelical Christian sentenced to seven months in prison for “causing outrage to religious peace and feeling.” In its verdict, published on March 19,
Biblical Tomb Raiders in Galilee Sentenced to Jail
(Haaretz) — Three would-be tomb raiders in northern Israel were recently jailed for breaking into Galilee graves dating to biblical times, using a small bulldozer, no less. The robbers were caught red-handed in the ancient biblical town of Mishkana, also
Indian Teen Kidnapped by Traffickers, Restored by Christ
(Open Doors USA) — Nineteen-year-old Reena has never known anything else other than that persecution was part of being a Christian in India. Her parents came to faith when she was very young. “Nobody wanted to play with me because
Kazakh Woman on Trial for Showing Another How to Download Bible Is Acquitted
Photo Credit: WikipediaSHYMKENT, Kazakhstan (Radio Free Europe) — A court in Kazakhstan has acquitted a woman who was charged with illegal missionary activity after she showed another person how to download the Bible on a smartphone. The South Kazakhstan Regional Court,