Persecution threatened to wipe out Iran’s tiny church. Instead, the church in Iran has become the fastest growing in the world, and it is influencing the region for Christ. By Mark Howard, The Gospel Coalition. Everyone loves a good story. As Christians, we especially love stories that tell us how, when all seems lost, God…
By Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post. Four Wycliffe Associates workers have been killed in an attack by radicals in the organization’s office in the Middle East. Wycliffe explained in a statement that the attackers, who are yet to be identified, shot and destroyed all the equipment in the Bible translation office, but the hard drives containing…
By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The U.S. Navy will no longer allow Bibles and other religious materials in the guest rooms of Navy lodges, a decision that has infuriated some conservative groups, which recently learned about the new policy. The Navy’s decision came after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter questioning the constitutionality of religious literature…
By William McKenzie (CNN) – Early on the morning of November 28, 2007, Jia Weihan was forced to think the unthinkable: Was her father really a bad man? At the time, she was an 11-year-old attending a school in Beijing that taught her to respect the communist authorities. When 30 or so police officers arrived…
By Heather Clark SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A prominent Christian legal organization has sent rebuttal letters to two public universities that recently decided to remove all Gideon Bibles from their hotel rooms in response to complaints from an atheist activist organization. As previously reported, the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University were contacted by the…
By Heather Clark FRANKFORT – A nationally-recognized Christian legal organization has sent a letter to school districts throughout the state of Kentucky in an effort to combat an attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to end the distribution of Gideons Bibles in public schools. William Sharp of the ACLU had sent a three-page…