Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12 ESV Attackers Burn Church to the Ground After It Defies Lockdown, “I Bet You Stay Home Now Hypokrits” A Mississippi church that is suing to stay open during the coronavirus shutdowns was destroyed by arson Wednesday, according to local officials… CONTINUED AT SOURCE
Christians in India Face More than COVID-19 JOHN STONESTREET WITH ROBERTO RIVERA Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul, referring to how its people resisted top-down rule, famously called India the land of a “million mutinies.” Apparently for many of the 1.3 billion people there, laws were thought of as suggestions, and obedience as negotiable. The era … More Christians in India Face More than COVID-19
Christians Kidnapped andMurdered in Ongoing Attacks On Jan. 21, Christie Peter Mwankon, 26, was kidnapped out of her sister’s house in the middle of the night by Fulani Islamic militants. A 25-year-old Christian man was killed by Fulani Islamic militants on Jan. 20. Pastor Lawan Andimi was kidnapped and murdered on Jan. 20 after the … More News Updates on the Persecuted Church
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
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