South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
United Kingdom police last week paid R230 000 (10 000 British pounds) in damages and costs to a Christian preacher arrested, strip-searched and jailed for denouncing Islam in 2022 at a renowned public speech site in London. Police at Speakers’ Corner on June 26 2022,treated Hatun Tash, director of Defend […]
Originally published in Worthy News Finland’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a years-long case brought by the country’s prosecutor general against Dr Päivi Räsänen, a Christian member of parliament who was charged – and acquitted – of hate speech after publicly expressing her opposition to homosexuality, CBN News reports. […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Christian artist has claimed that she was reported to the police for saying, while making a cup of tea with a council employee, that it is harmful for children to try and change their sex. It’s been announced that Victoria Culf will now challenge how Watford […]
North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom has partially lifted its controversial suspension of Shaun Christie, a final-year law student, for disrupting a LGBTQIA+ presentation to first year students at a university orientation event last Tuesday. NWU’s back-pedalling on its initial harsh response to Christie’s protest, which sparked a mass student walkout from […]
Shaun Christie, a final year law student at North-West Univeristy, Potchefstroom, has been suspended by university authoriries for disrupting a LGBTQIA+ presentation during an orientation session for first year students on Tuesday. In a video clip [see below] of Shaun speaking in front of the university he says he had responded […]
Originally published in Faithwire Close to a quarter of young British people said recently they would be open to banning the Bible if they believed its pages contained “hate speech”. Whitestone Insights, a polling group, surveyed 2 088 adults in the United Kingdom, asking them if they agreed with the […]
Originally published in CBN News A Finnish politician who faced a years-long legal battle for sharing her biblical views on sexuality has been found not guilty of hate speech for sharing a Bible verse, among other expressions. Dr Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s parliament whose religious freedom plight made […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A Christian preacher who held a sign with a Bible verse on it inside an abortion clinic “buffer zone” could be sent to prison. Stephen Green, 72, from south Wales, is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), which said he is being […]
A Christian MP in the new Finnish government has been given a fresh court summons over her trial for tweeting a Bible verse. Dr. Päivi Räsänen is a former Interior Minister and Christian Democrat. She must attend the Court of Appeal on 22nd August, with Bishop Juhana Pohjola (who is […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Christian teacher, previously suspended for addressing a transgender boy as ‘her’ says he’s ‘devastated’ to be banned from teaching. In a ruling thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, Joshua Sutcliffe was found guilty of unprofessional conduct and “bringing the […]