Christian Newsline Our Faith in Today’s World Islamist gunmen murder 24 including worshippers and pastor in north-east Burkina Faso Islamist extremist gunmen stormed a Sunday morning worship service in a church in Burkina Faso, killing ten Christians and abducting the pastor, on Sunday February 16. Read full article Pastor, three family members and deacon … More The Persecuted Church
Cause for Waldensian Rejoicing In the evening of February 16th each year, jubilant Italians light bonfires on mountainsides in northern Italy. These are a harbinger of joyous worship services and festivities which fill the following day. The Waldenses have reason to be glad. This day, February 17th, marks the anniversary of the day in 1858 when … More Today in Church History
Bonhoeffer Transferred to Buchenwald Concentration Camp Where does a Christian fit in a nation which makes itself god? The Lutheran theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer answered that the Christian’s duty is to resist such a regime. This landed him in a concentration camp and cost him his life. Safe in exile in America, he abruptly returned to … More Today in Church History
John Rogers, 1st of Many Martyrs John Rogers burned to death at a stake at Smithfield, England on this Monday morning, February 4,1555. Among the onlookers who encouraged him were his own children. What monstrous crime had earned him this cruel death? Born about 1500, Rogers was educated at Cambridge. He became a Catholic priest … More Today in Church History
Missionaries Kidnapped in Columbia “We had no idea we were living in a dangerous area,” said Tania Rich. “[W]e were just a normal couple doing what we thought we should with our lives.” That happened to be work with New Tribes Mission in the Kuna tribe on the Panama-Colombia border. On this day, January 31, … More Today in Church History
Christian Newsline Our Faith in Today’s World “Lord, forgive our persecutors” say Rohingya Christians brutally attacked in Muslim Rohingya backlash One Rohingya Christian is missing and twelve were seriously injured, including several children, in multiple attacks by Rohingya Muslim mobs on the isolated Rohingya Christian community in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh. Read full articlebas … More News updates on the persecuted Church
“A Hidden Life” Preaches a Profound Gospel in Few Words JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER A substantial part of Terrence Malick’s latest movie “A Hidden Life” takes place in a German prison where the film’s protagonist, a real historical figure now considered a Catholic saint, Franz Jägerstätter, is being held in prison for refusing … More “A Hidden Life” Preaches a Profound Gospel in Few Words
At least seven Christians killed as Boko Haram strikes villages in Far North Cameroon At least seven Christians were killed as gangs of around 300 Boko Haram militants raided five Christian villages in Far North Cameroon, reports a Barnabas contact. Read full article Nigerian Christian bride and friends murdered in jihadi ambush on way to … More News updates on the persecuted Church
Christian Newsline Our Faith in Today’s World Islamic State circulates video of militants beheading, shooting eleven Christian captives in Nigeria Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) posted unverified video footage on December 26 of its militants beheading ten Christian men and shooting an eleventh dead in north-east Nigeria. Read full article Christians and … More News updates on the persecuted Church
Five Ways to Pray for Your Persecuted Brothers and Sisters As we look forward to a new year, commit to pray regularly for your persecuted brothers and sisters in 2020. Here are specific ideas to help you pray: Pray that persecuted believers will be filled with compassion and holy love toward those who are persecuting … More Prayers for the Persecuted Church
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