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 →President Trump approves measure to defund Palestinian Authority
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WordNews.org) March 26, 2018 – The Taylor Force Act which defunds the Palestinian Authority became law last week following President Donald Trumps signature. The new law defunds the PA until it stops funding and supporting terroristic acts against Israel and the United States, according to Liberty Counsel. Liberty Counsel noted that the Palestinian […]
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 →Great Commission agencies unite to ‘Reclaim’ focus on taking the Gospel everywhere
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (WordNews.org) – An alliance of globally focused ministries has designated May 20, 2018, as the third annual International Day for the Unreached. This one-day event is intended to inspire and mobilize Christians to reach out to more than 2 billion people around the world who have yet to hear the gospel, organizers […]
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 […]
Read More →Life Legal alleges pro-life activist beaten by church security
NAPA, Calif. (WordNews.org) June 5, 2017 – A pro-life activist was beaten in a church parking lot here when distributing leaflets on behalf of a anti-abortion congressional candidate, Life Legal Defense Foundation alleges in a news release. Jeff White, founder of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a national faith-based organization, was allegedly surrounded by church […]
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