US Pastor David Lin returns home after 17-year wrongful detention in China
California pastor David Lin has been released from a Chinese prison after nearly two decades and has returned to the United States, the State Department said Sunday.
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Skip to main contentCalifornia pastor David Lin has been released from a Chinese prison after nearly two decades and has returned to the United States, the State Department said Sunday.
In the 25 years since the U.S. State Department has designated countries with the worst records of religious rights violations as “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC),” it has applied sanctions related only to those violations just three times, according to a new report.
A high court in Pakistan has ordered police to recover two Christian sisters, ages 13 and 18, who were forcibly converted to Islam and married to their abductors, the family’s attorney said.
The commander of an Islamist militia has reportedly seized 500 acres of farming land from Christian farmers in the town of Ras Al-Ein in northern Syria near the Turkish border.
“Everything that is not growing will slowly decay,” says Bambang Budijanto, general secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA), as he highlights the challenges facing the Church in Asia today.
As the U.K. Parliament gears up to debate the legalization of assisted suicide, church leaders nationwide are urging prayers and compassionate actions to prevent the proposed law from undermining the sanctity and dignity of human life.
A pastor who received a life sentence of hard labor in North Korea said he witnessed the hearts of his captors soften after they heard his sermons, a miracle that gave him hope that the country will one day embrace the Lord.
After an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas command center hidden in the humanitarian zone in Gaza killed three senior terror commanders, outrage erupted in international and Palestinian media amid claims that around 40 people died in the strikes.
The Indonesian police detained seven terrorist suspects involved in a plot to attack Pope Francis during his 12-day tour of southeast Asia, and some of those arrested reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror organization.