Posts Tagged ‘family’
Causes
Saeed Abedini in solitary confinement in Iran; health deteriorating
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service Already badly weakened by months of beatings and torture that have resulted in internal bleeding, American Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen, is facing perhaps ...
Causes
Egypt family gets 15 Years for Christian conversion
The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come. That’s according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islami...
News
Judge rejects much of Schuller’s bankruptcy bid
Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller failed to get most of the $5 million he requested in a bankruptcy case against the Southern California megachurch he started 57 years ago.
Causes
Chinese Christian Who Helped Hundreds of North Koreans Escape Unable to Get Political Refugee Status from UN (VIDEO)
A Chinese Christian who helped hundreds of North Koreans escape to Thailand and then was forced to escape there himself has been waiting for two years for the United Nations to grant him political asylum.
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Mass. Supreme Court to hear case against ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a non-religious family that's challenging the mandatory daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in their children’s classrooms.
Featured
Evangelical coalition rallies behind family planning
A coalition of evangelicals is calling on fellow Christians to support access to family planning across the world, saying it does not conflict with evangelical opposition to abortion.
Features
Leprosy survivors look to Mother Marianne’s sainthood
At 81, Barbara Marks is among the last 17 leprosy patients Hawaii banished to the remote peninsula of Kalaupapa. Over more than 100 years, beginning in 1866, more than 8,000 were separated from their families and taken to this...
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Rimsha and family will stay in Pakistan, lawyer says
Rimsha Masih and her family will remain in Pakistan after her legal ordeal is over, one of her lawyers says.
Arts & Culture
‘Extreme Makeover’ family has a call to ‘change the world’
Aaron and Jackie Frisch had more than their 15 minutes of fame when ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" blew into town and built them a dream home four years ago. Ever since, they’ve been carrying out an extreme makeover of ...
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Christian families living in ‘shocking conditions’ following release of Rimsha Masih
Following the released on bail of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl who was accused last month of blasphemy against Islam, local Christians are living in “shocking conditions” are in fear for their lives.