Category: Religion

A court in Bahawalpur on Tuesday handed the death penalty to a 22-year-old Christian on an unsubstantiated conviction under the country’s blasphemy laws, sources said. #Pakistan #Blasphemy #Christianpersecution

A Christian anti-trafficking network is imploring the European Parliament to fine companies that aren’t doing enough to combat exploitation and forced labor within their supply chains as the body gears up to vote on an EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence this week. #EuropeanParliament #CorporateSustainability #Christian #HumanTrafficking

A Major League Baseball player has apologized for sharing a video expressing support for a boycott of Target due to the retailer’s embrace of LGBT ideology by selling women’s swimsuits for trans-identified males that enable them to “tuck” their male genitalia.  #BlueJays #LGBT #Target #MajorLeagueBaseball #LosAngelesDodgers

Nearly four months after Eunice Dwumfour, a pastor’s wife and Republican New Jersey councilwoman was gunned down in her car just outside her townhome in Sayreville, authorities announced that they have arrested and charged a 28-year-old Virginia man with her murder. #EuniceDwumfour #RashidAliBynum #NewJersey #ChampionsRoyalAssembly

Police in Palm Bay, Florida, are still investigating the death of an 11-month-old girl who died after she was left alone in a hot car for three hours as her parents attended a worship service at the Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church, a small Southern Baptist congregation that is a member of the Florida Baptist Convention. #HotCarDeaths #Baptist #Florida #MountofOlivesEvangelicalBaptistChurch

A Grammy-winning Christian singer has given his endorsement to a controversial Bible translation.  #Christian #Bible #Translation #MichaelWSmith

A church in Pennsylvania is nearing the completion of a cross that stands 108 feet high on its property, with the sizeable Christian symbol expected to be finished in June. #Pennsylvania #Indiana #cross #Baptists #church #Spain

The president of Houghton University in New York is pushing back on claims that two staff members were terminated solely for including their pronouns in the signature line of their emails but emphasized the importance of school staff members accurately representing the school’s values in external and internal communications.  #Education #HoughtonUniversity #LGBT #ChristianCollege

The leader of The Episcopal Church had to be hospitalized over Memorial Day weekend due to suffering from internal bleeding and an irregular heartbeat. He has since been sent home. #EpiscopalChurch #MichaelCurry #bishop #internalbleeding #heartbeat

Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald has hurt a lot of people, says Christian investigative journalist Julie Roys, and she wants him to stop. #JamesMacDonald #JulieRoys #HarvestBibleChapel

The extent to which we are not seeking God’s will correlates directly to the degree we are engaged in idolatry. #Godswill #idolatry #sovereigntyofGod #temptation

We must take authority over Satan and renounce all control he might claim over us. There is still a demonic power in this world, and we have to be on guard against it. #Redemption #demonic #GenZ #Satan