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Originally published in The Christian Post Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old man who was arrested for feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale was re-arrested 24 hours later for the same offense. “I am both enthused and humbled,” Abbott told local10.com after being arrested the first time on Tueday. “The good news is […]
Originally published in Christianity Today Pope Francis and the general secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) have hailed a “new era” in relations between evangelicals and the Roman Catholic Church. A WEA delegation met with Pope Francis and representatives of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCCU) today […]
Exclusive eyewitness report By Asif Aqeel — Originally published in World Watch Monitor A Pakistani mob beat to near-death a Christian and his pregnant wife for her alleged ‘blasphemy’, then threw them both into the large kiln where they both worked as bonded laborers. The incident happened on Tuesday, November […]
Originally published in Christian Today Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the US Senate on Tuesday, dealing a punishing blow to President Barack Obama that will limit his legislative agenda and may force him to make a course correction for his last two years in […]
Originally published in The Guardian A Muslim mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked for allegedly desecrating a Qur’an, police have said. The attack in Kot Radha Kishan, 40 miles south-west of Lahore, is the latest example […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald Over 1 000 ancient Christian documents have been saved by a Dominican priest who escaped Islamic State militants in Iraq. According to a Kurdish news agency, Father Nageeb Michaeel, previously director of the Digital Centre for Eastern Manuscripts at the Mar Behnam Syriac Catholic […]
Originally published in LifeSite News Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, committed assisted suicide at her home in Portland, Oregon on Saturday evening by swallowing a fatal dose of barbiturates. She had previously acquired the drugs legally by prescription under Oregon’s controversial assisted suicide law. “Goodbye […]
Originally published in Christian Telegraph The National Crime Records Bureau says a girl gets trafficked once every eight minutes in India. The money generated through the sex trade stands at a whopping $343 billion a year, reports MNN. Is there social justice? Not really. It’s a lucrative business in a country […]
Originally published in Huffington Post Christian tightrope walker Nik Wallenda completed two record-breaking tightrope walks on live television on Sunday night. Wallenda, a seventh-generation performer, first walked across the Chicago River on a rope strung between the Marina City west tower and the Leo Burnett Building in Chicago. Starting at a […]
Originally published in Christian Today At least 220 members of a tribe that opposed the Islamic State were found this week to have been executed, according to a Reuters report. The news agency said the bodies of the men aged 18 to 55 were found in two mass graves in Anbar […]