U.N. experts have appealed to India’s government over the ongoing violence in Manipur state, which has left 187 dead, 70,000 displaced and hundreds of churches destroyed amid ethnic and religious tensions.
A school bus crash in Ohio led to the death of an 11-year-old boy and left 26 other students injured. The driver, previously caught and released at the U.S.-Mexico border, now faces multiple charges, including aggravated vehicular homicide.
Iraqi Christian leaders convened with a United Nations team and international representatives in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region to discuss ongoing investigations into ISIS’ targeted genocide against Christians, which was described as “barbaric attacks, rooted in hate and inhumanity.”
The online job search company Indeed is providing a $10,000 benefit to U.S.-based trans-identified employees and their families seeking to move to a state that allows the prescribing of puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and body mutilating sex-change surgeries to youth suffering from gender confusion.
The United States government has condemned Azerbaijan for blocking food and essential supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh, raising concerns over a genocide by starvation perpetrated against the region’s 120,000 ethnic Armenians. Sunday marked the 266th day of the region’s siege by Baku.
A woman suffered severe burns during a deliverance ceremony led by a pastor in Nigeria’s Ogun state. The incident occurred when the pastor lit a candle after dousing the woman in perfume, causing her to catch fire.
Violence against the tribal Christian Kuki-Zo community in Northeast India's Manipur state has escalated despite military interventions since its onset on May 3. The conflict has recently claimed eight more lives and left 29 injured. To date, 131 Kuki-Zo Christians have been killed, with 200 of their villages and over 360 of their churches either burned or destroyed.
Local youth organizations have accused soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo of opening fire in a church, reportedly killing 48, in the Central African country’s North Kivu province.
Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, acquitted more than a year ago after being prosecuted for voicing her traditional Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality, is back in court, facing charges of "hate speech."
A first of its kind survey in nearly a decade reveals a majority of Church of England priests favor “modernizing” church doctrine on issues like same-sex marriage and premarital sex.
