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[notice]This news and commentary comes from Citzen Go, an online activist community promoting life, family and liberty[/notice] The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has overwhelmingly supported the right of Christians to observe their faith at the workplace and in the education of their children. The resolution called, “Tackling intolerance and discrimination […]
Originally published in Christian Today In July 2012, Naghmeh Abedini’s life changed in an instant. Her husband Saeed, an Iranian-born American pastor, was arrested in Iran for his involvement with house churches. After two months of interrogation under torture, he was charged with threatening the security of the state and […]
Originally published in Raw Story Iraq’s first Christian-only brigade of regular forces graduated Thursday to help retake the community’s towns and villages from the Islamic State group. The new brigade will answer to the government of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, whose peshmerga fighters are playing a leading role in the […]
Little did the young Iraqi refugee girl know that her comments about forgiveness would go viral. When interviewed recently by Sat 7 reporter Essam Nagy, 10-year-old Myriam shared her heart about life as a refugee in Erbil, Kurdistan. She told Nagy that she forgives ISIS for forcing her family from their […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Twenty Christian men on an evangelical mission in north-western India last week were illegally detained and tortured by police, according to a human rights group which intervened to force their release. The People’s Union for Civil Liberties worked with local Christians to persuade senior […]
Originally published in WND The attendees rose to their feet all at once in a thunderous standing ovation. Five hundred people applauding one elderly woman who was making her way to the stage. It was Anita Dittman, 87, who as a girl survived 12 years of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi rule […]
Originally published in Times of Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned today (Tuesday, March 3, 2015) in a landmark address to the joint houses of Congress that a nuclear deal taking shape between Iran and Western powers “paves the path for Iran” to a nuclear bomb, rather than blocking […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A Florida pastor who’s set to make her debut as one of three “sexperts” on a racy and already controversial TV show called “Sex Box” premiering on WE tv Friday in which a mix of gay, straight, married and unmarried couples have live sex in […]
Originally published in The Christian Institute A heterosexual couple who want a civil partnership have been given a green light to legally challenge the Government. Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld do not want to get married and are calling for civil partnerships – which currently are for homosexual couples only […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Sources from Syria’s embattled Hassaka province confirmed at midnight on Tuesday, February 24, that at least 72 Assyrian Christian families – thought to be around 200 people – from three villages have been captured by the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Reportedly taken to the Arab Sunni […]