Attacks on church in Turkey spike as some blame Christians for pandemic
ISTANBUL, Turkey (WordNews.org) June 24, 2020 — SAT-7 TURK — the only Christian network broadcasting every day in the Turkish language — is urging local Christians to respond to attacks and persecution by “living out their faith with love and taking the path of peace.” Christians have been under assault as some angry protesters attack churches and […]
Read More →Christian organizations praise President Trump’s Executive Order Advancing Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) June 3, 2020 — Religious liberty organizations praised President Trump for signing an Executive Order that they say will advance international religious freedom as a priority in U.S. foreign policy. “Millions of Christians around the world suffer for their faith. Now they and other people persecuted for their religion have a stronger […]
Read More →Liberty Counsel: Chicago Threatens to Close or Destroy Churches
CHICAGO (WordNews.org) May 26, 2020 — The Chicago Department of Public Health sent a letter to Elim Pentecostal Church as well as Romanian churches in the city over the weekend threatening closure and “summary abatement.” Liberty Counsel said in the letter, which it described as threatening, Commissioner Allison Arwady wrote: “I am authorized to seek to […]
Read More →Rutherford Institute Sues Delaware for “Overstepping First Amendment”
WILMINGTON, Del. (WordNews.org) May 21, 2020 — The Rutherford Institute, a law firm that often takes on Christian causes, is suing the state of Delaware, asking the courts to “ensure that churches are not being unfairly discriminated against in their efforts to worship in accordance with their religious beliefs.” In a First Amendment lawsuit filed […]
Read More →Campaign for International Day for the Unreached expands
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) March 1, 2018 – A movement to accelerate missions efforts to unreached people groups has gained momentum with two additions to the International Day for the Unreached organizing group. Frontier Ventures (www.frontierventures.org) and William Carey International University (WCIU, www.wciu.edu), two long-time leaders in the frontier missions movement who share a campus in Pasadena, Calif., […]
Read More →ChinaAid: 14 Christians have vanished, believed to be in government custody
WENZHOU, Zhejiang, China (WordNews.org) Feb. 2, 2018 – Fourteen Christian leaders of Chinese house churches have vanished in China’s coastal Zhejiang province in what ChinaAid is calling “the latest in a saga of China’s serial persecution” of Christians. The underground church leaders are believed to be in police custody since Jan. 13. The Christians are part of […]
Read More →The sole Evangelical radio station in the Middle East welcomes VP Pence
GALILEE, Israel (WordNews.org) Jan. 23, 2018 – The Voice of Hope, the only Christian radio station in Israel, welcomes Vice President Mike Pence in his visit of solidarity with Christians in the Middle East. And Pence encourage faith leaders in return during a speech at Israel’s Knesset. “We will also support faith leaders in this […]
Read More →Bomb levels $2.6M persecuted church in Shanix, China; Concerns rises that more churches will be destroyed
LINFEN, Shanix, China (WordNews.org) Jan. 11, 2018 – An explosion reduced to rubble a church China Aid describes as “serially persecuted” in China’s northern Shanxi province. According to China Aid, authorities bombed and demolished the Golden Lampstand Church, an unregistered church that cost $2.6 million to build in 2009. Chinese military police detonated explosives in […]
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