Millions Pray For Persecuted Church
Millions of Christians from Vancouver to Vladivostok were praying Sunday, November 8, for persecuted Christians, amid reports of increased repression in several countries around the world.
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NEWS ALERT: U.S. Churches Must Prepare For Swine Flu Outbreak, Group Says
The influential Christian Emergency Network (CEN), told churches Saturday, October 24, they might have to offer alternative Sunday worship services, just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama declared the spreading H1N1 swine flu virus “a national emergency.”
NEWS WATCH: US VP Warns Europe of Missile Threats
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has called on America’s European allies to step-up their defense efforts, saying they the face growing security threats from outside Europe.
BREAKING NEWS: Iran Fires Long Range Missiles Able To Hit Israel
Iran on Monday, September 28, “test” fired long range Shabab-3 and Sajjil rockets that could potentially reach Israel and U.S. military bases in the Gulf region, Iranian media said.
BREAKING NEWS: Senator Kennedy Dies At 77
United States Senator Edward Kennedy, a Liberal towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America’s most known political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died,his family said Wednesday, August 26. He was 77.
Americans Free But Thousands Still Jailed, Executed In North Korea
An international Christian advocacy group welcomed Wednesday, August 5, North Korea’s decision to release American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling but warned that at least 200,000 religious and political prisoners remain behind bars in labor camps across the isolated Communist nation, where executions of inmates continue.
NEWS ALERT: Al-Qaida Kills US Christian Aid Worker In Mauritania
An American aid worker has been shot and killed in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants of the Al-Qaida network because he was involved in spreading Christianity in the African nation, several Christian groups confirmed Friday, June 26.
BREAKING NEWS: Pop King Michael Jackson Dies
Michael Jackson, who became known as ‘the king of pop’, has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50.
Suspect Holocaust Museum Shooting “To Survive” Injuries, Officials
An elderly man charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will likely survive the injuries he suffered when other museum guards returned fire, officials said Saturday, June 13.
NEWS ALERT: Holocaust Museum Closed After Deadly Shooting
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington was closed Thursday, June 11, after an elderly man known for his anti-Semitic views stormed the building and killed a guard, officials said.
US University Prohibits Thanking Jesus At Graduation
A professor at the government-funded University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has prohibited a graduating student from saying “I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” in her own graduation speech, amid a heated debate over using that name in public across the United States, BosNewsLife monitored Wednesday, June 3.
Outrage Over US Military Bible Burnings In Afghanistan
The president of a US-based group helping Christians persecuted for their faith has expressed outrage that United States military personnel have burned confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan.
BREAKING NEWS: FBI Foils New York Terror Attack
Four men have been detained for allegedly planning to bomb a synagogue and a Jewish community center in the Bronx area of New York City and were expected to appear in federal court Thursday, May 21, police officials said.
BREAKING NEWS: Iran Releases American Reporter
American Iranian free-lance journalist Roxana Saberi who reported for Vatican Radio, National Public Radio and other international media has been freed from a Tehran prison, amid international pressure, her attorney confirmed Monday, May 11.
President Obama Scales Back National Day Of Prayer
United States President Barack Obama was to limit his participation in the annual “National Day of Prayer,” Thursday, May 7, to signing a proclamation, disappointing both Christian conservatives and atheists who want to end the tradition.
U.S. Commission Names 13 Countries as Religious Freedom Violators
The latest annual report by the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom names 13 countries as serious violators of religious freedom, Worthy News monitored Saturday, May 2, with reporting by the Voice of America network (VOA).
BREAKING NEWS: New York Shooting Kills 14 (Developing Story)
A gunman opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, in the northeastern state of New York, Friday, April 3, killing at least 13 people before killing himself, US officials said. The shootings apparently happened after he took at least 20 people as hostages.
World Leaders Pledge Over $1 Trillion To Tackle Global Crisis
World leaders meeting in London pledged on Thursday, April 2, a whopping $1.1 trillion to global institutions such as the International Monetary Fund to combat the global economic crisis, prompting investors to buy up stocks while the Dow industrials in New York surged over 8,000 for the first time in two months.
Plane Crashes Kill 16 In US, Japan
Officials on Monday, March 23, began investigating plane crashes in three countries which killed 16 people, most of them in United States, where aviation experts wanted to know why a single-engine plane plunged into a cemetery in the northwestern state of Montana.
US Chaplains Banned From Mentioning God
Chaplains working at a hospice home in the U.S. state of Florida are no longer allowed to say “God”in inspirational messages to staff members, as part of a wider trend in the United States, Worthy News learned Saturday, March 21.