New hospital vessel to be built for Mercy Ships
January 2, 2014
BEIJING, China — Mercy Ships has announced that it has reached an agreement with shipbuilding firms to purpose-build a new hospital ship for Mercy Ships.
England recognizes Church of Scientology marriages
January 2, 2014
LONDON, England — Britain’s highest court ruled Dec. 11, 2013, that Scientology is a religion, giving a 25-year-old woman and her fiancé the legal rights
Croatians initiate referendum to preserve marriage
January 2, 2014
ZAGERB, Croatia — In the nation’s first-ever, citizen-initiated referendum, Croatians asked their government to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman,
Worship services banned by guerrilla army in Colombia
January 2, 2014
PUTUMAYO, Colombia — Christians in southern Colombia are living in constant danger from a guerrilla army that has banned worship services in rural areas under
Christians attacked after schools merge in Nigeria
January 2, 2014
JOS, Nigeria — Educational reforms in Nigeria’s Osun state have created religious tensions in schools, resulting in Islamist youth beating a Christian principal unconscious in
Church members’ homes raided in Turkmenistan
January 2, 2014
DASHOGUZ, Turkmenistan — Police and MSS secret police in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, have raided members of the Pentecostal church Light of the East. Two homes of
Pope Francis tops news according to Religion Newswriters members
January 2, 2014
He’s Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the most talked about topic on Facebook and the most popular baby namesake in Italy. No surprise, Pope
Noted convert in Egypt arrested, likely tortured
December 19, 2013
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian authorities recently arrested a Christian who is arguably the nation’s most well-known convert from Islam and are investigating him for several
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