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Originally published in Christian Today In the last two months, Iranian courts have sentenced 18 Christian converts to time in prison for charges including evangelising and creating house churches. The 18 were sentenced between mid-March and mid-May, according to a report from Persian-language Radio Farda. Thirteen of them were from […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald In a powerful story of redemption and grace, an Islamic State militant known for his brutal killing of Christians has converted to his victims’ religion after dreaming of “a man in white” who offered him a dramatic message, according to one missionary’s account. “One […]
Originally published in CBN News ISIS now controls more than half of Syrian territory after seizing the village and archaeological site of Palmyra Thursday. The city has long been a major target because of its historic relics and proximity to oil fields. Syrian government forces say they were no match […]
Originally published in Charisma News Thousands of Spirit-empowered Christians from around the world are converging on Jerusalem this week for the Empowered21 Global Congress. The Congress, which is being held May 20-25, is a call to all believers from around the world to celebrate Pentecost in the land of Pentecost. The historic gathering began […]
Widespread condemnation of sentence, increased polarisation of Egypt By INcontext Ministries — originally published in A World In Motion, Issue 124, 21 May, 2015 An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011. Morsi […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Danger levels rose sharply in late April for northeast Syria’s isolated Assyrian Christians, caught for nearly three months now between Kurdish militias and Syrian army forces battling with militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State for control of Hassaka province. “We are going through a […]
An English housewife and teacher who returned home one day to find her husband had died of a heart attack can have little imagined how an extraordinary new life adventure was about to begin. Esther Lever was subsequently launched on an amazing journey which has taken her to more than […]
Originally published in Israel Today Young people from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and many other Arab countries are turning to social media to tell the world that they love Israel. The trend began, according to Al-Monitor, a popular pan-Mideast media outlet, when an Israeli Arab Muslim who served in the […]
[notice]By Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate. She is Adjunctnct Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at the Melbourne School of Theology. She is Director of Advocacy for Christian Faith and Freedom based in Canberra, Australia. [/notice] On the night of 24 April 1915 the […]
Originally published in Christian Today Houthi forces fought street-by-street battles with local militia in the old centre of Aden on Wednesday, as the first boatloads of emergency medical aid reached the south Yemeni port city, which relief workers say faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Residents saw a dozen bodies strewn on […]