Christians threatened to be burned alive
May 9, 2002
NAGPUR, India — About 40 Christians of the New Life Fellowship (NLF) had gathered for worship Feb. 8 at the home of a new believer
Indonesian Christians still live in fear
May 9, 2002
TAGOLU, Sulawesi — Muslim groups are trying to prevent Christians from rebuilding their homes, says Mona Saroinsong, coordinator of the Protestant Church Crisis Centre in
Children taken from Arab Christian widow
May 9, 2002
AMMAN, Jordan — An Arab Christian widow has been ordered by Jordan’s highest court of appeals to surrender custody of her two minor children to
BWA leader calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces
May 9, 2002
The forces of the Israeli government should withdraw from the occupied Palestinian areas and the suicide bombers be condemned,” said the leader of the Baptist
First-grader can’t give Christian messages
May 9, 2002
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A U.S. District Court judge ruled that school officials were justified in forbidding a first-grade girl from giving her classmates
Magazine column defends 2000 BF&M
May 9, 2002
DALLAS — “It is not enough to say we believe every word of the Bible to be true to be a Baptist,” according to Jim
24 Christian schools closed in Nigeria
May 9, 2002
KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Kano state government closed 24 Christian schools because of their refusal to provide Islamic religious studies as part of their curricula.
U.S. Catholics claim loyalty to religion
May 9, 2002
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pedophilia scandal that has consumed the Roman Catholic Church has damaged the credibility of church bishops, but the vast majority of
