Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 10:27PM 
A small circular stone seal may be the first archaeological evidence of Samson.
(Staff) SCHOLARS IN ISRAEL say they may have found the first archaeological evidence of Samson, the Bible’s most famous strongman. Professor Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman, excavation directors at Tel Aviv University, reported that while recently digging at
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 10:18PM 
Yousef Nadarkhani
YOUSEF NADARKHANI, the Church of Iran pastor sentenced to death for apostasy, has been released and is at home with his family for the first time in three years – although he is still being
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 10:12PM 
The Rt Rev. Stanley Ntagali
Photo:www.anglicancommunion.org
THE CHURCH of Uganda has elected the Rt Rev. Stanley Ntagali to succeed Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi. Archbishop-elect Ntagali will be installed on Dec. 16th at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Namirembe. The election was held by secret ballot in the House of Bishops on June 22nd. He was elected with more than
Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 10:09PM (Staff) A YOUNG Christian Pakistani girl, Rimsha Masih, was arrested and imprisoned on Aug. 16 under blasphemy laws for allegedly burning papers containing Quranic verses. Her plight attracted international condemnation because she is underage, illiterate and mentally challenged. An official medical report has classified her as
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 11:29AM For the first time in more than 50 years, Cuba’s state-run television broadcast a Good Friday mass celebrated in the cathedral of Havana at the request of Pope Benedict XVI. Good Friday was also declared a holiday in Cuba for the first time
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 03:31PM 
Robinson Cavalcanti
By George Conger
THE BISHOP OF RECIFE, Robinson Cavalcanti, and his wife Miriam were murdered in their home in Olinda, Brazil. The bishop’s adopted son is alleged to have knifed his parents following a quarrel. Police say he stabbed his father on Feb. 26th and that Miriam attempted to intervene
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 03:25PM Canadian practices questioned
A SENATE COMMITTEE in Australia has called for a national apology to thousands of women who were forced to give up their newborns for adoption from the 1950s to the 1970s. The women were deemed unsuitable mothers since they were unwed at the time. The report, which was released on Feb. 29th , was based on submissions from hundreds of women.
“The evidence … tells the accounts of mothers and fathers who were pressured
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 03:21PM By Ramez Atallah
A YOUNG EGYPTIAN was walking by the Bible Society bookshop in downtown Cairo. As was his daily habit, he stopped to read the passage from the open page of the Bible in the display window. That day the following verse struck him:
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you” (John 12:35).
This was God’s call for him to enter
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 05:22PM Christians not the only targets
Northern Nigeria is predominantly Muslim.
A SPATE OF ATTACKS on Christians in Kano in northern Nigeria has recently been carried out by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram (BH). Loosely translated, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden or sinful.” Boko Haram sees Christianity as directly equated with the “sinful” West; as a result, Christians in Nigeria are often targets
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 05:18PM ARCHBISHOPS ROWAN WILLIAMS of Canterbury and John Sentamu of York have suggested that the Church of England and the Anglican Communion ought to be in “an open-ended engagement” with the newly-formed Anglican Church in North America.
The “Province-in-formation,” as it sometimes refers to itself, unites some 100,000 Anglicans