I stood up at church last Sunday morning to make an announcement about an upcoming event I am excited about, a talk by Dr. Peter Williams titled “Evidence for the Resurrection.”
Speakers from Scotland and abroad condemned the widespread misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws during a protest demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Monday, April 8, 2013.
Harvey Thomas, who was Margaret Thatcher’s Press and Public Relations Director during her years at the British Prime Minister, and a survivor of the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing, has described Margaret Thatcher as “a giant among both Politicians an...
It was in the Sinai desert that the nation of Israel received God s law. Consequently we tend to think of the Sinai as a place of law-giving. Today, however, under Egyptian control, the Sinai (particularly the north-east) is absolutely lawless ...
The issues of evangelism and house churches are making headlines in pro-government media, and Islamic officials are using this as a platform to deal with them.
In 2012 Open Doors International made a major impact by supporting and strengthening persecuted Christians in restrictive countries around the world, according to statistics released today Tuesday, April 9, 2013) by the global ministry.
As many as 700 ethnic American missionaries and pastors from 75 denominations are converging here next week for the 12th Annual Ethnic Ministries Summit starting April 18.
The new hut offered little more than four walls and a roof, but Naamagal was plenty grateful to have that for a night. At 56 years old, she had raised two children, but she lived as if she had no family at all.
Following the tragic death of 27-year-old Matthew Warren, the youngest son of Pastor Rick Warren and his wife, Kay, who committed suicide “momentary wave of despair” last Friday, a special fund has been set up in his name for those affected by m...
A mother of two has died after a forced sterilization, which took place against a doctor’s orders, Women’s Rights in China (www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org) is reporting.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87.
Tributes were pouring in today for Britain’s first ever female prime minister Margaret Thatcher who has died of a stroke aged 87, while staying at the Ritz Hotel in London.
The death of Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative former prime minister, who died on Monday (April 8, 2013) of a stroke at the age of 87, and ruled Great Britain for 11 years beginning in 1979, reminded me of an incredible story of forgiveness th...
Mohand grew up in an Algerian mountain village among the Kabyle Berber tribe. His family were devout Muslims. After his father passed away when Mohand was young, his mother responded with a dose of Muslim fatalism, saying, “It is the will of A...
Actress Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s, and for her beach movies with Frankie Avalon, is finally out of her pain.
One of the most significant periods of the church calendar, and least celebrated or noted, is the 40 days after Jesus rose from the dead. He walked and talked in places where His ministry had been; He was seen in His restored body by thousands; ...
Thousands of Copts attended the funeral service held today (Sunday, April 7, 2013) at St Mark Cathedral in Cairo for the Coptic victims killed by Muslims on April 4 and 5 in al-Khosous, Qaliubiya. The service was attended by Christians from all ...
According to the Assyrian International News Agency some 500 Assyrians from Syria have crossed the border into Turkey in the past three days, seeking refuge from the war in Syria.
Just imagine your head and heart are brimming with fantastic dreams, brilliant aspirations; world changing ideas, but no one can hear you. That is what life is like to be deaf in Kenya, and the children of the Immanuel Christian School for the D...
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”—John 11:25-26 (NIV).
Family, friends and members of Saddleback Valley Community Church, Lake Forest, California, packed the church this morning (April 7, 2013) to mourn the loss of Matthew, the youngest son of Pastor Rick Warren and his wife Kay, who committed suici...
With the news that the son of well-known Pastor and author Rick Warren has taken his life as the result of mental illness, the topic of psychological trauma has once more reared its ugly head in ther Christian community.
I was working on an article for ANS that dealt with suicide, and how others can find help in the midst of pain, when the tragic news came in of Rick Warren son’s suicide. (See Dan Wooding’s story at
