Jailed Elderly Beijing Church Activist Life in Danger; Relatives Appeal for Medical Parole
August 23, 2007
CAA learned that the health of a jailed Beijing house church activist, 77-year-old Ms. Shuang Shuying, was found in serious condition. She was sentenced to two years by Beijing Chongwen District People's Court on February 26, 2007 on the trumped- up charge of willfully damaging public and private property. Full Story...Christian Rights Activists Arrested by Police in Egypt
August 23, 2007
Dr. Adel Fawzy Faltas (61) and Peter Ezzat (23), two members of an international Christian rights organization, Middle East Christian Association (MECA), were arrested by the police in Cairo on August 8. Full Story...
911 Caller in Abortion Death Quits Tiller
August 23, 2007
The abortion worker who placed the evasive 911 call in the death of a 19-year old Downs syndrome patient is no longer employed by abortionist George R. Tiller at Women's Health Care Services (WHCS). Full Story...
40-Day Vigil Launched to Stop 'Abortion Fortress'
August 23, 2007
"Next month, Planned Parenthood intends to open one of the largest abortuaries on the face of the earth," said Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Scheidler. "We're praying that never happens." Full Story...
Christian prayer warrior, estate owner and cash crop entrepreneur killed in Kerala
August 22, 2007
A Christian estate owner was killed at Thathengalam, near Mannarghat in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India, on 17 August. According to Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service, John Mathew, 47, who was also known as Monachan of Pothukal Njettikkulam in Nilambur of Malappuram district, was killed in his farm house at Thathengalam on Thursday night. Full Story...
Vote Life, Canada! Condemns Amnesty International's New Abortion Policy and Accuses Catholic Bishops of Canada of Indifference to the Killing of Unborns
August 22, 2007
Vote Life, Canada! expresses its distress at the news that Amnesty International (AI) has adopted a formal stance backing women's rights to abortion. Full Story...
Abortion Pill not 'Safe' in Spite of Study-Misleading conclusions are being drawn about the safety of RU486
August 22, 2007
Misleading conclusions are being drawn in news stories based on a study that has indicated that the RU486 abortion drug is no more dangerous than surgical abortions. Full Story...
Pastor and Church Members Beaten by Militants in India
August 22, 2007
Pastor Babula Changra Paik, another church leader and an elderly man were beaten by approximately fifty Hindu militants during a Sunday morning church worship service at a house church in the city of Bhilai, Chattisgarh. Full Story...
Tiller's Attorneys Go Judge Shopping
August 22, 2007
Attorneys for abortionist George R. Tiller have filed a motion with the District Court to replace Judge Anthony Powell, who was assigned to the case last Friday. Full Story...
Albanian man who gave himself up to Greek police for his crime nears his release
August 22, 2007
It was a memorable day for those present at the Albanian border crossing of Kapshtica in January 2002 when Edward Leka arrived. Many of those hearing him talking to the police that day were astonished; others even said he was crazy. Before the Greek border police, Edward admitted that sometime in 1993, when he had been an emigrant in Greece, he had killed a man. For this reason he was now surrendering himself. Full Story...
ELCA Lutheran Church Trashes Pages From Bible
August 22, 2007
At a recent meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), the decision was made that the ELCA would ignore the Bible's unequivocal condemnation of homosexual behavior as sinful and permit openly homosexual clergy to pastor ELCA churches. This has stirred up tension between the ELCA and other more Biblically sound factions within the Lutheran denomination. Full Story...
Indian Women Beaten by Neighbours for Evangelization
August 22, 2007
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on August 14, Uma Jasmine (38) was beaten by the next-door neighbours of a local family that she had been witnessing to for the past few months in Bangalore. Full Story...
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