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August 17, 2023

Renewed crackdown on Christians in Iran underway

August 17, 2023

Britain is an increasingly impoverished society: spiritually and financially. Still, anyone born here has won the historic lottery relatively speaking. It is easy for us to forget that harsh persecution, especially of a religious type, is the global norm, not the exception. Nowhere better demonstrates this than Iran. Once a western-allied kingdom with an increasing

US court ends abortion ‘pills by post’ scheme

August 17, 2023

An American court has halted the practice of sending out abortion pills by post. A unanimous panel for the U.S Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must restore critical safeguards for chemical abortion drugs and disallow their shipment by mail. The ruling follows an application by

Mass exodus as mobs burn churches and homes in Pakistan

August 17, 2023

Up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in Pakistan. Christians from the Punjab town of Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, fled en masse as fanatics began throwing rocks and stones and setting fire to buildings. The incident follows an accusation of blasphemy against a