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The Christian Institute has said it will take the government to court unless it ensures that the fundamental rights of parents and pastors are protected in a future ban on conversion therapy.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must fire a key ally from the country's new Cabinet. The decision Wednesday by 10 of the 11 judges presents the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis and deepens a rift over the power of the courts. The high court ruled that Aryeh Deri, the influential head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and a longtime Netanyahu ally, cannot serve as a minister after he was convicted last year for tax offenses and placed on probation as part of a plea deal. The hotly anticipated ruling comes as Israel is being roiled by sweeping changes to the country’s legal system.
Abdulai had never heard the name of Jesus. As one of Africa’s many Deaf people, that’s understandable. But he’d also never seen Jesus’ name signed or read about a Savior in the Bible.
This week, religious liberty organization Open Doors revealed that the persecution of Christians around the world has continued to worsen and expand over
The World Watch List, released by Open Doors on Jan. 18, reported that the number of Christians facing persecution worldwide remained at about 360 million.
Among those arrested were at least four evangelical pastors, according to Agência Pública, a Brazilian investigative news agency, which analyzed the government labor records of 1,398 detained demonstrators. The pastors were representative of the significant presence of evangelicals and Catholics among the mob.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi died Wednesday in a helicopter crash that killed more than a dozen people. The crash occurred near a kindergarten in the capital city. Authorities opened...
Terrorists attacked a church service in northwestern Nigeria on Sunday (Jan. 15), shot the pastor and kidnapped 25 congregation members, sources said.
A prominent rabbi and his wife recently led appeals to Israel's parliament to fulfill the biblical command to care for the widow and the orphan. Within the Knesset, hundreds of widows, widowers and orphans enjoyed a day to honor them. The day's organizers were former Knesset member Yehuda Glick and his wife, Hadass, who would like to make the gathering an annual event.
A Brazilian church is mourning the loss of a pastor and his wife, who died attempting to save their teenage son from drowning at the beach
