A Haitian judge decided today to release eight of the ten American missionaries, who have been held since Jan. 30 on accusations of kidnapping 33 children.
“I am extremely disturbed that two of the missionaries are being left behind,” says Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, which has lobbied the Haitian government on behalf of [...]
The Haitian judge has said Thursday that he will recommend the 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries be released while the investigation continues as to whether they were illegally trying to take a busload of children out of the country.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil will send his recommendation to the prosecutor, who may agree or object, but Saint-Vil has [...]
As the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States addresses the first case of “sexting,” the Chinese government pressured one of their telecommunications companies to monitor and report any text transmissions that contain “lewd” and “illegal” content.
Last year, the Chinese government pledged to silence pornography on the internet, and now it appears it [...]
An 86-year-old Indian politician was forced to resign Sunday after a television news channel broadcast footage that allegedly showed him in bed with three women.
Narayan Dutt Tiwari, governor of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh a Congress Party official insists that the video was fabricated, reports the Times of London, but Congress leaders demanded [...]
The world is continuing to embrace gay marriage at an unprecedented rate. Seven countries currently permit it: Belgium, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa and Sweden and several states here in the U.S. allow it.
On Monday night despite opposition from conservatives and the predominate Roman Catholic church, Mexico City became the first in Latin [...]
U.S Airlines may be watching the European Court of Justice ruling today that said airlines in the European Union must pay up to 600 euros (roughtly $900 U.S. dollars) to passengers whose flights are delayed three or more hours, the same amount as their flight had been cancelled.
In August 2009, a plane departing from New [...]
A European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes displayed in Italian classrooms sparking anger in predominantly Catholic Italy and debate in Switzerland.
The court ruled Tuesday that displaying crosses in the public schools violated the idea of secular education, but others in the Italian government will fight against the ruling.
Mariastella Gelmini, a member of the conservative government [...]
Proposed revisions to Russia’s religion law are raising concerns of Russian Baptist leaders who say the new legislation would greatly reduce religious freedoms in Russia.
Yuri Sipko, president of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists recently wrote an open letterRussian President Dmitry Medvedev expressing “alarm and puzzlement” over new and unexpected development in church-state relations, reports the [...]
The Lutheran church in Sweden said Thursday it will conduct gay weddings starting Nov 1.
Excited about starting this new tradition, Kristina Grenholm, the church’s director of theology “We are the first major church to do this.” The decision came after the Swedish parliament earlier this year passed legislation allowing homosexuals to legally marry, changing a [...]
On October 2, the Council of Europe will debate a resolution proposed that promotes abortion as a means of family planning and population control in developing countries.
The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), an international non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting human rights and religious freedom, said it “is extremely concerned” over the [...]
