The Arizona junior high schoolers weren’t trying to cause any problems. They just had a great idea: hey, let’s pray for the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. They were taking a walking tour of Capitol Hill with their teacher Maureen Rigo when they paused and bowed their steps. Standing on the Oval Plaza of…

Indonesian Pastor Luspida Simanjuntak says as a little girl, she wanted to be a soldier. Instead she became a preacher.   Now, she’s having to be both.   But the soldiering is done in prayer – on her knees – since she is facing a foe that is beyond her human strength to conquer.   She…

A Christian Chinese lawyer who has disappeared after being arrested by Chinese police told a human rights group that his detention and probable torture were inevitable. High-profile lawyer Jiang Tianyong, 41, who has campaigned for religious freedom in China, was seized by police on February 19. His concerned wife, Jin Bianling, has appealed to Christians…

Provocateurs are being blamed for a deadly mob attack on a suburban Cairo church and ancient monastery — and riots that have followed.   A number of Egyptians on March 10 pointed the finger at Egypt’s army for the death of 13 people killed as Coptic Christians protested the church burning. However, others blamed radicals.   The…

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