By Tina Arnoldi
Pastor Amar Bahadur Fauja of Nepal died of COVID-19 this year, in the same hospital where his son also died of COVID-19 merely a week before.
Pastor Amar Fauj was a God fearing pastor who started churches in Nepal with only a few believers and stood up to severe persecution during his time as pastor.
— Read on www.christianpost.com/sponsored/the-situation-in-nepal-and-myanmar-is-dire.html
By Nicole Alcindor
A 46-year-old woman was found dead in a section of the Jordan River in Northern Israel the day after her son, in his late 20s, murdered her because she converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity.
— Read on www.christianpost.com/news/israeli-mom-allegedy-killed-by-son-for-converting-to-christianity.html
By Michael Gryboski
United Methodist clergy who oppose same-sex marriage won’t be required to officiate gay wedding ceremonies if the denomination changes its stance on LGBT issues, according to a clergy panel.
— Read on www.christianpost.com/news/umc-pastors-panel-says-gay-weddings-wont-never-be-mandatory.html
By Anugrah Kumar
More than 2,000 people have signed a petition demanding the release of a Protestant pastor who’s been imprisoned by Cuba’s communist regime without trial for participating in peaceful protests that emerged across the country in July.
— Read on www.christianpost.com/news/over-2k-sign-petition-demanding-release-of-jailed-cuban-pastor.html
By Anugrah Kumar
A 16-year-old Christian boy from India’s Bihar state, who suffered burns to 65% of his body in an acid attack by suspected Hindu nationalists last month, succumbed to his wounds in the hospital this week.
— Read on www.christianpost.com/news/christian-boy-dies-46-days-after-acid-attack-in-india.html
By Anugrah Kumar:
A Muslim mob in northern Nigeria’s Kano state hacked to death a church leader and burned down his home, church and a Christian school to avenge the murder of a woman allegedly committed by a young man falsely believed to be a Christian convert, according to reports.https://www.christianpost.com/news/nigerian-pastor-murdered-by-muslim-mob-wielding-machetes.html?uid=31b008eddd&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=CP-Newsletter&utm_medium=email
By Jonathan Chaves
How close are Confucian ideas to the American conservatism of our day? Confucius himself is known in Chinese tradition as the “Model Sage for Ten Thousand Ages.”
Thus, Confucius and his disciples and later followers held that there are indeed “permanent things,” to borrow the telling phrase employed to such great effect by Russell Kirk…
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/confucianism-conservatism-east-jonathan-chaves.html