Military Police used excavators and dynamite to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church. “This might be a new pattern against any independent churches”, Christian advocacy groups warn.
The new Penal Code to be approved under President Evo Morales sanctions religious “recruitment” with 7 to 12 years of imprisonment.
A letter to the embassador in Rome was delivered.
A generation that accepts uncritically that ‘you can’t say that’ will slide from unwillingness to inability to disagree with or critique the propaganda it is relentlessly fed.
Former leader of the Liberal Party Tim Farron speaks about his experiences as an evangelical Christian in politics. “In the United States, you have to invent a faith to be taken seriously, in the UK you have to pretend you haven’t got one”.
Intolerance against Christians is highest in Central and Southeast Asia, after North Korea. The situation worsens dramatically in Africa. In Europe, two people were murdered bacause of their faith last year.
“We need to teach our boys and girls that porn is wrong, unhealthy and dangerous”.
Employers cover the cost of egg freezing. “The message is that your motherhood is an obstacle”, an expert says.
Although a postmodern stance toward faith relegates theological issues to the background, they are indispensable for understanding the missionary reality.
The phone I hold in my hands makes me behave and relate to others differently than I did before.
He is one of several Christians in the country who are now publicly asking to be recognised and respected: “We are no aliens, we are Moroccans”.
In their own quiet way, Russia’s Protestant denominations are continuing to evangelise.
About 180 churches leave the denomination in the midst of theological and pastoral debates about same-sex unions.
The recent papal journey to Myanmar and Bangladesh provides an entry point into the applied missiology of the Pope.
More than 22 killed and 450 arrested in the last days. Authorities blame the “blasphemous minority”.
Fulani militants gunmen attacked Christian carollers while they were singing in a church of Southern Kaduna, Nigeria. Ten are still injured.
Debora means “bee”, an animal regarded by the Hebrews as organised, wise and hard-working.
In an increasingly uncivil environment, Christian Unions provide an unequalled safe space in which to proclaim a dangerous and life-transforming message.
The religious group founded by Edir Macedo has been accused of trafficking children from Portugal to Brazil and the USA. Portuguese evangelicals clearly distance themselves from the “doctrines and practices” of the group.
The biblical doctrines which the Reformers rediscovered and emphasised provided the framework out of which modern medicine was available eventually to develop.
Both Sebastian Pinera and Juan Orlando Hernandez received the support of a majority of church members.
Most will not celebrate Christmas publicly this year to avoid “schisms in society” as they wait for the government to answer to their requests of freedom and equality.
It is time for us to say #wetoo if we are praying for a profound awakening in our churches, if we are willing our churches to have a renewed testimony in our society. We mustn’t fear.
The document launched by Spanish evangelicals aims to develop a positive vision of marriage and sexuality. “The invisibility of Christians must come to an end, we must position ourselves”.
The play “Memory of Ashes” recreates episodes of the life of the man who first translated the New Testament into Spanish.
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