Pakistan Observed a Day for Its Minorities Yesterday. The People It Is For Call It a Day of Demand. A day for equal citizenship, observed by a state whose constitution still bars a Christian from its two highest offices.
His Church Received 293 Dollars. The Court in Dak Lak Gave Him Seven and a Half Years. The state counted the money to the last dong. It came to about 293 dollars, and it bought a pastor seven and a half years.
Everyone Says Arizona Saved the Confessional. Read the Holding. It Did Something Larger. A unanimous Arizona Supreme Court did not rule that confession is privileged. It ruled that no judge or jury may ask whether a clergy member read his own doctrine correctly. That is a much larger rule.
Two of the Three Came Home. It Took Thirteen Days for Anyone to Find Out. Two of the three church leaders taken from Heiban were released on July 28 and August 1. The news took thirteen days to leave the Nuba Mountains, and it reached us after we published.
I Shared the Revival Numbers Before I Read Them. Here Is What the Second Chart Says. Gen Z really is going to church more often. That study counts churchgoers. The other Barna report, the one nobody made a graphic of, says practicing Christians have halved in 25 years.
He Said Mass That Morning Standing In for Someone Else. He Was Found on Church Road. Father Samuel Oyetoro filled in for a colleague on leave, said Mass, and was found on Church Road with machete wounds. Four days later gunmen took three people from a Sunday Mass in another state.
A Texas Judge Just Declined to Take the Posters Down. He Did Not Say They Were Lawful. A denied temporary restraining order is not a ruling on the merits. The hearing that matters is August 17, and the standard at stake is one Texas Christians wrote for themselves.