Category Archive: News, World
World Shorts
EU declares ISIS actions genocide (WNS)–The European Parliament on Feb. 4 passed a resolution declaring Islamic State violence against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities...Iraqi Refugee Child’s Startling Message to World Leaders
By Dan Wooding EASTON, MD (ANS) – Myriam, an 11-year-old Iraqi refugee girl who became a viral video star, has startling advice for how world leaders should respond to the terrorist group Islamic...Is God sowing seeds for revival in Japan?
By Michael Ashcraft and Mark Ellis With less than 1% of the nation Christian, Japan has been called the “missionaries’ graveyard.” In Africa missionaries died from exotic diseases, but in Japan...Shiite militias behind abduction of Americans in Baghdad
By Anna K. Poole (WNS)–Iraqi security forces are conducting an intensive search for three Americans who went missing around Jan. 15, reportedly abducted from a seedy apartment building...Support swells for Christian family in Norway after authorities seize children
By Sarah Padbury (WNS)–When Marius and Ruth Bodnariu sent their daughters off to school one day last fall, they had no idea they would not come home. And they certainly never imagined their...The hands and feet of Christ in Burkina Faso
Michael Riddering served the needy day and night until al-Qaeda terrorists killed him in a coffee shop By Samantha Gobba (WNS)–Missionary Michael Riddering never suspected the coffee...World News Shorts
Muslims protect Christians in Kenyan bus attack (WNS)–Islamic militants with Somalia’s al-Shabaab are suspected of attacking a commuter bus in northeast Kenya on Dec. 21. The attack killed...World News Briefs
Dec 03, 2015 Larry Lepore - Editor News, World 0
Justice is rare for Christian women raped in Pakistan (WNS)–Two Muslim men accused of raping Christian sisters in Pakistan were acquitted in October, an all too common outcome for rape trials...Swedish Court Rules Midwives Must Perform Abortions
Dec 03, 2015 Larry Lepore - Editor News, World 0
By Sarah Padbury (WNS)–A district court in Sweden recently ruled against midwife Ellinor Grimmark, who was denied employment at four hospitals because she refuses to participate in...Proposed Iraqi Law Would Force Some Children to Become Muslim
Dec 03, 2015 Larry Lepore - Editor News, World 0
By Julia A. Seymour (WNS)–Religious minority groups in Iraq are protesting a new law that would force some children to become Muslim. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad urged Iraqi...