Ruth Starkey stood in her grandson-in-law’s swimming pool, surrounded by family and neighbors. At 93, she was about to make a public declaration of faith.
More than 1,000 women in Ukraine recently attended conferences, workshops and seminars designed to offer Christ-centered trauma healing.
Christians are commanded, commissioned and called to combat all religious persecution, international human rights attorney Knox Thames told a gathering at Dallas Baptist University.
A high-ranking Nigerian official dismissed reports by international human rights organizations about widespread violence against Christians in his country as “not supported by the facts on the ground,” but some Nigerian Christian leaders disagreed.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor sophomore Hannah Balkenbush knows exactly where her hope lies—in Jesus Christ. That conviction is the driving force behind Beautiful Hope Ministries.
Somalia tops the list of countries where access to the Bible is blocked by law, actions of religious extremists or acts by other nonstate actors, the Bible Access Initiative announced Oct. 2.
“He loves [Bacon Heights],” said his mother, Rosie Rodriguez. “He’s always around. I don’t think there’s one person in the whole church that doesn’t know his name.”
“All the pain, all of the differences, all the different cultures, different approaches, and the language, all of that is there, but the love of Jesus kind of unites us in such a special way,” Pastor Victor Akhterov said.
Religious leaders who resist state control face a wide range of punishment—from surveillance and fines to retribution against family members, imprisonment, forced labor and torture, the report states.
More than a dozen Texas families filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Sept. 22 seeking to stop their school districts from displaying a state-prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
