By Megha Rajagopalan and James Pearson (Reuters) – China is cracking down on Christian charity groups near its border with North Korea, missionaries and aid groups say, with hundreds of members of the community forced to leave the country and some who remain describing an atmosphere of fear. The sweep along the frontier is believed…
By Michael Paulson After protesters shouting “Go home” turned back busloads of immigrant mothers and children in Murrieta, Calif., a furious Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, sat down at his notepad and drafted a blog post detailing his shame at the episode, writing, “It was un-American; it was unbiblical;…
Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children and women seeking refuge from violence in their home countries in Central America are crossing the United States-Mexico border, and numerous humanitarian and faith-based agencies are doing what they can to provide for their safety and well-being. Among such agencies are churches from various denominations, working in tandem with…