Posts Tagged ‘station’
Features
Egypt’s lost daughters; the abduction of Christian girls
“We don’t know if our daughter is still alive,” Magda told ICC during a recent visit to Egypt. “We haven’t seen or heard from her in five years… Her kidnapper called us and said she was dead and buried.”
Features
Campus radio station’s Easter launch reflects growing optimism in Liberia
An air of excitement, renewal and optimism filled the campus of a Liberian Bible school on Easter Sunday as students, staff and local officials celebrated both the resurrection of Christ and the revival of a campus radio statio...
India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution
Kerala, India, October 31 (Compass Direct News) – The government on Oct. 20 deported U.S. evangelist William Lee, blacklisted him and prohibited him from visiting India again after police arrested him on Oct. 14 for participati...
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: Time to Hit the Road
Nothing screams “summer” like a family road trip. Even with the explosion of easy-access-information, human beings still long to explore their world. We aren’t content to merely “Google” our surroundings and accept that as a ge...
Arts & Culture
Christian TV weatherman fired for protesting strip club story
The chief meteorologist of an ABC affiliate station in California was fired recently because of disagreement regarding the airing of a report on the economic success of stripper clubs amid the recession. Jack Church, the former...
Arts & Culture
Chicago father charged for abandoning his baby at Archdiocese
A man who abandoned his baby in front of the Archdiocese of Chicago headquarters was arrested recently on charges of child endangerment. James Evans, 52, was arrested after he walked into the Town Hall police station last Frida...
Featured
Christian church leader barred from attending evangelical conference
A prominent house church leader and three other church members were stopped recently in an airport in China, from boarding a plane to head to Hong Kong, where they were slated to attend an evangelical conference. Wang Yi, a chu...
Featured
Egyptian policeman kills one Christian, wounds five others in train
An off duty policeman in Egypt boarded a train recently and opened fire at a group of Christians, killing a 71-year-old man and wounding five others. The gunman, Amer Ashur Abdel Zaher, boarded the Cairo-bound train at about 5 ...
Commentary and News
Afghanistan suspends relief efforts of 2 Christian aid groups
The Afghan government suspended recently the operations of two church-based relief groups on Monday over suspicions that they were involved in converting Afghans to Christianity. The groups, Church World Service, an American or...