SBC DIGEST: New IMB Hispanic mobilizer; Global Lottie conference for Chinese Christians | Baptist Press
Annel Robayna named IMB’s Hispanic church mobilization strategist; Chicago church hosts Lottie Moon conference for Mandarin speakers.
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Sober or Bright? Europe Faces Holidays During Energy Crunch
In cities across Europe, officials are wrestling with a choice as energy prices have gone up because of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Dim Christmas lighting to send a message of energy conservation and solidarity or let the lights blaze in a message of defiance after two years of pandemic-suppressed Christmas seasons.
Chinese protesters demand Xi Jinping resign after 10 die in fire due to draconian COVID lockdowns
Xi Jinping, step down CCP, step down Such slogans were heard at universities and on the streets across China during the weekend, including in Beijing and Shanghai, as students and others protested ...
'Heresy': Worshipers leave Cambridge sermon in tears over claim Jesus has trans body, crucifixion wound is vagina
Worshipers in a chapel at the University of Cambridge said they were left in tears after a research student claimed that Jesus side wound in Renaissance and Medieval paintings of the crucifixion can ...
Christians at risk in northwestern Syria
There's a threat to the property, safety and existence of religious minority groups, including Christians, in northwestern Syria under the de facto governance of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaeda affiliate and U.S.-designated terrorist group, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in a new report.
USCIRF warns of threat to Christians in northwestern Syria
There s a threat to the property, safety and existence of religious minority groups, including Christians, in northwestern Syria under the de facto governance of Hay at Tahrir al-Sham, a former ...
Protests over China's COVID Controls Spread Across Country
Protests against China’s anti-virus controls that have confined millions of people to their homes spread to Shanghai and other cities after complaints the death toll in a fire in China’s northwest might have been worsened by the restrictions. A witness in Shanghai said police used pepper spray against about 300 protesters.
Woman loses appeal to stop killing of babies with Down syndrome, cleft-lip or club foot
A woman with Down syndrome has lost her appeal to stop killing babies diagnosed with this condition, cleft lip or club foot in-utero under the disability clause in abortion laws, which she said were ...
200 Pakistani Christians left homeless after authorities bulldoze their homes without warning
Two hundred Christian families remain homeless in Pakistan s capital of Islamabad after a government agency bulldozed their homes and the church building they used for Sunday worship
43% of Brits think metaverse will drive them toward the matrix as celebrities embrace virtual worlds
Some 43 of British people believe the metaverse will eventually lead them toward the matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population as heat and ...
