Today’s Headlines: INDIA’S SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE ON DALIT CHRISTIANS’ RIGHTS EVANGELICAL CHURCHES ISSUE STATEMENT PROMOTING PEACE IN COLOMBIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CURRICULUM HELPS REBUILD HAITI Today’s Top Stories: INDIA’S SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE ON DALIT CHRISTIANS’ RIGHTS India’s Supreme Court will again hear a case, Wednesday, April 5, regarding the end of discrimination […]
Today’s Headlines: WATER IN SUDANESE REFUGEE CAMP SEEN AS ‘MIRACLE FROM GOD’ MINISTRY FOCUSES ON TRAINING RUSSIAN PASTORS AS RESTRICTIONS TIGHTEN MOB TORCHES HOMES OF 5 CHRISTIAN FAMILIES IN VIETNAMESE TOWN REBELS RELEASE NEPALI EVANGELIST 15 DAYS AFTER ABDUCTING HIM INDIA’S SUPREME COURT DENIES ELECTIVE OFFICES TO TRIBAL CONVERTS Today’s Top Stories: WATER IN SUDANESE […]
Cuban church leaders are increasingly concerned about the repercussions facing Christians in Cuba as the repression of the country’s house churches appears to be on the rise. In September 2005, the government put forth new directives which required all house churches to be registered. Since then, government oppression appears to be intensifying. A news release […]
STATISTICS REVEAL THE EXTENT OF THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR BRITAIN AND IRELAND 100,000 Children a year run away from Broken Homes Source: The Children’s Society 41% of all Children Born in the UK are to unmarried couplesSource: Social Trends 34, Office of National Statistics The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe Source: […]
Today’s Headlines: GROWING TENSIONS IN SRI LANKA FAIL TO HINDER CHRISTIAN OUTREACH BELIEVERS RESPOND TO HUNGER CRISIS IN NIGER WITH FOOD BANKS EGYPTIAN CHRISTIAN DISCOVERS MISSING SISTER IN MUSLIM HOME TAJIKISTAN DRAFTS CENTRAL ASIA’S ‘MOST REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW’ CHURCH LEADER REMAINS IN CUBAN PRISON WITHOUT CHARGES Today’s Top Stories: GROWING TENSIONS IN SRI LANKA FAIL […]
Today’s Headlines: GANG DAMAGES CHURCH IN PAKISTAN, RAISING RELIGIOUS TENSIONS DROUGHT IN EAST AFRICA AFFECTS COMPASSION’S PROJECTS IN KENYA PASTOR FLEES HOME IN SRI LANKA FOLLOWING MOB ATTACKS Today’s Top Stories: GANG DAMAGES CHURCH IN PAKISTAN, RAISING RELIGIOUS TENSIONS Unidentified intruders broke into a church in a central Pakistani city and torched its furniture in […]
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 27 March 2006 BELARUS: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAWYER JAILED http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=750 Following Baptist pastor Georgi Vyazovsky’s completion of a 10 day jail term, religious freedom […]
Northern Uganda’s War-Sick Children Move into the Media Spotlight Sightings 3/30/06 Northern Uganda’s War-Sick Children Move into the Media Spotlight — Rosalind I. J. Hackett After years of neglect and obscurity, the plight of Northern Uganda’s war-sick children is finally becoming a global media item. Journalists and filmmakers are vying for the most apposite epithet […]
Today’s Headlines: MUSLIM MOB FORCES CHURCH TO CLOSE IN WEST JAVA, INDONESIA HINDU EXTREMISTS ATTACK CHRISTIAN WORKERS IN 2 STATES OF INDIA AFGHAN CHRISTIAN CONVERT GOES INTO HIDING AFTER HIS RELEASE U.S. YOUTH REJECT AMERICAN POP CULTURE IN ‘REVERSE REBELLION’ Today’s Top Stories: MUSLIM MOB FORCES CHURCH TO CLOSE IN WEST JAVA, INDONESIA Violence against […]
Today’s Headlines: BELARUS JAILS ACTIVIST FOR ORGANIZING ‘ILLEGAL RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY’ NORTH KOREA FREEDOM WEEK TO BUILD AWARENESS OF PERSECUTION SURVEY: ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ADULTS AVOID ATTENDING CHURCH Today’s Top Stories: BELARUS JAILS ACTIVIST FOR ORGANIZING ‘ILLEGAL RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY’ Sergey Shavtsov, a lawyer and prominent human rights activist, was arrested, tried and sentenced to 10 days’ […]