By Matthew Mihelic,The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Over a year ago, the series of awful videos emerged revealing that Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts of aborted babies. And this summer, the Supreme Court has reminded us once again that they claim to possess the authority to define human life. In its June…
The murder of Willie Kimani can rally the global Body of Christ for an end to impunity. By Gary Haugen, Christianity Today. Earlier this month I spent two weeks in Kenya, where international attention has focused on the abduction and murder of three men: my colleague Willie Kimani, a human rights lawyer and investigator for…
By Alan F. H. Wisdom, interim editor, Theology Matters. You may have seen the news. Amnesty International leaders have added prostitution–they prefer to call it “sex work”–to the list of human rights they will defend. Last Tuesday the Nobel Prize-winning human rights organization adopted a new policy endorsing “the full decriminalization of all aspects…
By Samuel Smith, The Christian Post A United Nations report highlighting the human rights violations of the Islamic State’s jihadist campaign in Iraq found that while over 24,000 Iraqi civilians have been injured or killed by ISIS in the first eight months of 2014, and the extremists have taken up the practices of recruiting 12-…
By Kristen Powers (RNS) Iraq’s Christians are begging the world for help. Is anybody listening? Since capturing the country’s second largest city of Mosul in early June, the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, has ordered Christians to convert to Islam, pay taxes levied on non-Muslims, or die. The extremist Sunni group is also persecuting…
By Kim R. Holmes We are asked every day to show solidarity with women and with racial and ethnic minorities around the world. Yet some of us too easily dismiss discrimination against and even persecution and murder of Christians as merely a “religious” problem that concerns only Christians. But it’s bigger than that. It’s a…
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra Secretary of State John Kerry’s December trip to Vietnam was meant to improve relations and urge greater protection of human rights in a country that climbed three spots on a list of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians. Kerry attended Mass in Ho Chi Minh City, a move faith-based adviser Shaun…
By BosNewsLife TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– Iran has jailed dozens of evangelical Christians, many of whom are converts from Muslim backgrounds, according to a new United Nations report seen by BosNewsLife Monday, March 17. Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, said “at least 49 Christians” remained detained “in Islamic Republic of Iran…
By Stoyan Zaimov Christian Missionary Kenneth Bae, who is being held captive in North Korea, “confessed” in a new video that he is guilty of a “serious crime” and said Kim Jong-Un’s government does not abuse human rights, a statement that experts are saying was clearly given under duress. “I would like to plead with…
By Michael Carl It’s been only a year and a half since mostly Christian South Sudan split from Muslim Sudan in a referendum that was accompanied by widespread violence, but now tribal rivalries have plunged the new country into its own civil war. Reports coming from the war-torn country vary with one report Tuesday claiming…