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Christian leaders pay pastoral visits to troubled Palestinian Christians

BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian Today   Church leaders from a range of traditions have made pastoral visits to Christian communities in Gaza and the West Bank. The visit took place amid a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and worsening humanitarian and economic conditions in […]

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Lib Dem Christians call for investigation into party after discrimination case

BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian Today   The Liberal Democrat Christian Forum (LDCF) has called for an investigation into the party following an admission that it unlawfully discriminated against a potential MP over his Christian faith. David Campanale was deselected as the party’s prospective MP candidate for […]

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Religion treated as a ‘problem’ in US public life

BY  :   Jon Brown  Christian Today   Commissioners of the White House Religious Liberty Commission delivered their final report to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, following their yearlong investigation into the emerging threats to faith in the United States, which they confirmed […]

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Poll suggests quarter of British Christians are ‘Christian nationalists’

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BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   Around a quarter of Christians in Britain identify as Christian nationalists or are sympathetic to its ideas, a mini survey by Premier Christian News has suggested. The research, which asked the views of 260 Christians, was part of […]

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Christian congresswoman introduces bill to mandate ‘In God We Trust’ on federal buildings

BY  :  Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter    A Republican member of Congress from Illinois introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to mandate that the national motto acknowledging God be displayed in every federal building. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the […]

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IDF soldiers jailed for desecrating statue of Mary

BY   :   Staff  Writer  Christian  Today   Two Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers have received brief prison sentences after putting a cigarette into the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in occupied Lebanon. The incident is not the first in which IDF soldiers […]

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Calls for investigation into disappearance of Protestant missionary in southern Mexico

BY   :  Obianuju Mbah  Christian  Today   A 79-year-old Protestant missionary has been missing for more than six weeks in southern Mexico after reportedly being abducted by armed men while carrying out evangelistic work in Guerrero State. Human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has […]

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Iraqi court rules in favour of Christian woman challenging Muslim religion status

BY  :  Obianuju Mbah  Christian Today   A court in Iraq has delivered a favourable ruling for a young Christian woman seeking to change her officially registered religion from Islam to Christianity. The decision has been hailed by religious freedom advocates as a potentially significant […]

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Xi Jinping’s CCP is re-writing the Bible

BY  :  Samuel Ben-Ur, Op-ed contributor    The Chinese Communist Party is rewriting the Bible. As part of Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization of Christianity” campaign, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to ensure Christianity in China is instilled with “core socialist values.” Pursuant to that effort, the […]

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Christians among main victims of Islamist violence in eastern DRC

BY  :   Obianuju Mbah  Christian  Today   Christians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing escalating violence from an Islamic State-linked militant group accused of massacres, abductions and systematic terror attacks across villages and churches, according to a major new Amnesty International report. […]

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Christians petition for protection of pastors in Colombia following murders

BY  :   Staff  Writer  Christian Today A new campaign has been launched aimed at restoring special protection to religious leaders in Colombia, following a series of killings and kidnappings by armed groups. The campaign zeroes in on Decrees 1066 and the National Protection System (NPS). […]

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Can the Middle East learn how to respect religious freedom from Kurdistan?

BY  : Staff  Writer Christian Today   The European Parliament has heard how Kurdistan can act as a model of religious tolerance for the wider Middle East. Kurdistan is the region of the Middle East traditionally inhabited by the Kurdish people. It is not an […]

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Children of detained Pastor Ezra Jin, Jimmy Lai hoping for fathers’ release after Trump-Xi meeting

BY   :  Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor    The children of two men imprisoned by Chinese authorities, house church leader Pastor Ezra Jin and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, say they’re counting on President Donald Trump to raise both cases when he meets Chinese […]

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