Source: CT Membership has fallen by around 20 per cent in five years, from 413,000 in 2011 to 336,000 at the end of 2017. In the next five or six years there will be a shortfall of around 300 paid ministers with 75 per cent currently over the age of […]
Source: CT At least15 deaths have been confirmed according to morgue officials at Bangui’s Community Hospital and human rights group Doctors Without Borders, while at least 60 were injured in the violence. It remains unclear how many were killed in the church itself or in the ensuing conflict that followed. […]
Source: Associated Press By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors […]
Source: Reuters By David Alire Garcia SAN JOSE (Reuters) – The resounding victory of a pro-gay marriage candidate in Costa Rica’s presidential run-off vote on Sunday staved off a resurgent […]
Source: Silive.com April 1, 2018 marks the end of the Lenten season and marks the Easter holiday. While the commercialized version of Easter is marked by chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs, these symbols of new life have deep roots in the Christian faith. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection […]
Guardian: Europe’s march towards a post-Christian society has been starkly illustrated by research showing a majority of young people in a dozen countries do not follow a religion. The survey of 16- to 29-year-olds found the Czech Republic is the least religious country in Europe, with 91% of that age group […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ben Otto and Anita Rachman Updated Feb. 28, 2018 12:51 p.m. ET JAKARTA—Two Indonesian Christians were publicly whipped for gambling, a rare case of non-Muslims being punished […]
Source: The Washington Post By Aaron C. Davis and Jack Gillum February 3 Email the author The Trump administration’s nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in assistance to migrants around the world has suggested in social-media […]
By Zubair Khan Here is the LINK At link is a video by famous German TV N-24. Experiment has been made on a person by putting him on cross. His body could not sustain longer with lose legs. Then feet were also fixed on the cross. This position proved man […]
After public pressure Joel Osteen has seen the light, and will now open his spacious 16,800-seat megachurch to hurricane refugees. Osteen’s megachurch, Lakewood Church, is located near downtown Houston, and would make an ideal refugee center from those trying to escape the flooding. However, the 16,800 seat megachurch was closed during and […]
Source: http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/detail.php?hnewsid=6544 BPCA announces that Thailand opens bail for detained UNHCR registered asylum seekers London: July 11, 2017. (PCP) For almost two years persecuted Pakistani Christians and Ahmadis who make up over 50% of Thailand’s asylum seeker community have been refused bail for overstaying their visa’s. For the re-persecuted victims this […]
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Missouri church seeking state funding in a case that tests the boundaries of separation between church and state. The case concerns Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Missouri, which applied for a grant from the Department of Natural Resources to help renovate […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella | ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure […]
Source: BBC By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem The Archbishop of Canterbury is to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders as part of a 12-day tour of the Holy Land. His […]
Source: The Guardian By Catherine Pepinster All across the continent, compassion has run dry as the right ignores the Gospel lessons It is chocolate time for French children this morning, thanks […]
Source: The New York Times BY Nicholas Kristof Christians celebrate Easter on Sunday. But wait — do we really think Jesus literally rose from the dead? I asked questions like that […]
Source: BBC By Amanda Proença Santos & Rodolfo Contreras Pious history Armenia is a small country in south-west Asia with a population of only 3 million people. But it […]
Source: Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Coptic Christian man and stabbed his daughter to death inside his home in northern Sinai, the seventh such killing in a month’s time in the restive region, officials and a Christian priest said Friday, prompting hundreds of […]
Source: The Daily Beast On November 6, 2016, two-year-old Ella Foster, the daughter of Grace and Jonathan Foster of Bethel, Pennsylvania, developed a cold. During the next two days, she became listless, her breathing more labored and rapid. On November 8 she died in her father’s arms from bacterial pneumonia. […]
Source: CNN CNN)-Scores of evangelical leaders, including at least one from each state, have taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement to denounce President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on refugees, urging […]
