Chinese house church leader arrested again
Posted on: Tuesday, March 14, 2000
14 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- Chinese house church leader Li Dexian was detained by police on Tuesday morning and released the same evening without harm. The Protestant evangelist was arrested by Public Security Bureau officers at his weekly 10 a.m.…
Christians in Kaduna forced to renounce their faith or die
Posted on: Monday, March 13, 2000
KADUNA, Nigeria, 13 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- About 300 Christians of the Kabe ethnic group in the city of Kaduna were abducted and forced to renounce their faith by their Muslim captors during religious clashes in the state last month,…
World Bank seeks partnership with churches in Africa
Posted on: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
NAIROBI, Kenya, 8 March 2000 — "Religion is the most powerful philosophy in development," a World Bank official told Newsroom at a conference focusing on poverty in Africa here this week.
Orthodox Jews, Christians join to defend the Golan Heights
Posted on: Monday, March 6, 2000
GOLAN HEIGHTS, 6 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- Orthodox Rabbis and evangelical Protestants are among the leaders of a biblically based campaign to prevent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government from transferring the Golan Heights to Syria. Israel's parliament, the Knesset,…
Wave of arrests resumes for Chinese evangelist
Posted on: Tuesday, February 22, 2000
22 February 2000 (Newsroom) -- After a respite of one month, Chinese house church leader Li Dexian was detained by police on Tuesday for the 10th time since October. Public Security Bureau officers arrested the 45-year-old Protestant evangelist as he…
Vietnamese Protestants try to normalize relations with state
Posted on: Monday, February 21, 2000
21 February 2000 (Newsroom) -- Vietnamese Communist authorities are negotiating with Protestant church leaders to normalize relations, reports the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). If successful, the talks could pave the way for recognition of house churches that existed before the…
Abortion, Baal Worship, and Breast Cancer
Posted on: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Had an abortion, or know someone who has? This hot topic comes at us, in the media, from every angle. But how many of those who've gone through this process know of God's deep, strong love for them? Did you…
Tufts Christian Fellowship loses funding, recognition over gay leadership
Posted on: Saturday, February 5, 2000
MEDFORD, Massachusetts, 2 May 2000 (Newsroom) - An undergraduate student judiciary board at Tufts University has stripped the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) of its affiliation with the college over the group's refusal to consider an openly gay student for a…
The Burning Man
Posted on: Thursday, February 3, 2000
For the past ten years earth-worshipping pagans have migrated from Canada, Brazil, Germany, Russia, and 25 other countries, to an isolated corner of Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where a four-day-long New Age techno-fest known as "The Burning Man" has…
The Burning Man
Posted on: Thursday, February 3, 2000
For the past ten years earth-worshipping pagans have migrated from Canada, Brazil, Germany, Russia, and 25 other countries, to an isolated corner of Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where a four-day-long New Age techno-fest known as "The Burning Man" has…
Human Rights in Muslim Understanding
Posted on: Thursday, January 20, 2000
When Christians are persecuted for their faith in Muslim countries, or when Muslims convert to Christianity and are threatened with the death penalty, the Western press accuses the Islamic state of human rights violations. At the same time, most Islamic…
