newsproino

Sailors involved in transferring fuel oil from an Iraqi tanker in the Persian Gulf to another vessel owned by a shipping company traded in the U.S. discovered a “suspicious object” they fear could be a mine, authorities said Thursday.    from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3rIRBD9

This week President Trump issued a proclamation that was filled with some profound quotes about faith and freedom, intended to reaffirm America's mission to end religious persecution worldwide. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3pzLFdV

Britain’s Parliament voted resoundingly on Wednesday to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.’s long and divisive Brexit journey. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/38M75Og

Religious persecution is projected to rise in 2021, warns Release International (RI), an organization that supports persecuted Christians around the world.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2L8vvck

Argentina on Wednesday became the largest nation in Latin America to legalize elective abortion.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/384Zifn

There have been reports of more violence against Christians by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria's Kaduna state.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3rHAi5y

The United States flew two B-52 bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday as a forewarning to Iran against any potential attacks against American or allied targets in the Middle East. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3rHoeBi

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old Christian journalist in China, has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai due to her reporting of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, the epicenter of the viral spread that sparked the ongoing pandemic. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3o2fdAm

Aftershocks jolted central Croatia on Wednesday, a day after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake killed at least seven people, injured dozens and left several towns and villages in ruins. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3ocOjFW

Hundreds of Pakistani Christian families had to flee their homes prior to Christmas after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to the neighborhood after a faith-based social media post was published by a local pastor. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3aSJbDq

The year 2020 certainly brought the world a load of suffering, pain, and anguish. Billy Graham examined the issue of suffering in his 1981 book, Till Armageddon.  The late evangelist's publishers thought this would be an especially appropriate time to reprint it, but with a new title, Who’s in Charge of a World That Suffers?  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/38HNlep

The year 2020 certainly brought the world a load of suffering, pain, and anguish. Billy Graham examined the issue of suffering in his 1981 book, Till Armageddon.  The late evangelist's publishers thought this would be an especially appropriate time to reprint it, but with a new title, Who’s in Charge of a World That Suffers?  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/38I7262

A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing considerable damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of Zagreb, the capital. A man and a boy were pulled out alive from a car buried in rubble and sent to a hospital. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3pC4wVL

The Chinese Christmas season was much different this year as the Communist Party remains steadfast in its efforts to eliminate Christianity from the country. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3rCRlp9

Members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram reportedly attacked and killed 11 people in a Christian village in northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3aPCDVN

Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KFBbuE

Government restrictions on religion around the world have reached the highest point in the past 11 years, as revealed in the Pew Research Center’s annual report on religious freedom released last week. A global trend of government policies impeding individuals’ peaceful expression of their faith is disturbing, and it ought to motivate advocates of free speech and religious freedom to action. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3mUmHnL

The actions of two officers from the Calgary Police Service (CPS) in Canada have come under public scrutiny following the arrest of a 21-year-old man for refusing to follow the country's COVID restrictions.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3nFEQH7

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but further studies are needed to be completely sure, its chief executive said Tuesday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3nJ653F

Trucks waiting to get in and out of Britain backed up for miles and people were stranded at airports Monday as many countries imposed stringent travel restrictions over concerns about a new strain of the coronavirus that is spreading in southeast England. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/37CQpJJ

Demonstrators stood outside Buenos Aires last Friday, where they erupted in cheers upon learning the Argentinian lower house passed a bill to legalize abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KDA8Ll

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Christmas gatherings can’t go ahead and non-essential shops must close in London and much of southern England, as he imposed a new, higher level of coronavirus restrictions on the region to curb rapidly spreading infections.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3rcNm2x

A fire broke out Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing nine people, the health minister said. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3p7eTjV

Alternate Israeli Prime Minister Benny Gantz said that the Palestinians deserved their own “entity” and could have a capital in Jerusalem. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/38wda1d

More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, the Katsina State governor said Thursday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2K60lT6

Hundreds of millions of children worldwide suffer from poverty, and the impact it can have on a young life is nothing short of tragic. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/37mnhpQ

The radical Islamic group, Boko Haram is holding hundreds of schoolchildren captive in Nigeria. Gunmen attacked a government-run secondary school last week and abducted more than 300 students. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/388afLK

More than a year after the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the Islamic terror group is turning its sights on Africa. The continent is currently witnessing a spree of terror attacks inspired by ISIS-affiliated groups. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3r6JsbA

A Christian man in Pakistan has been acquitted of blasphemy and released from prison after serving 10 years of a life sentence. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3adgzEi

The Trump administration is leveling harsh, new sanctions on NATO-ally Turkey for its purchase of Russian missile defense systems. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2WhYNYt

Gunmen in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state abducted more than 300 boys from a Government Science secondary school on Friday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Knao5N

The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence officers believed responsible for his abduction. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2IRQHmm

A Pakistani Christian who fled to Bangkok, Thailand following accusations of blasphemy against Islam is speaking out about the severe persecution he has endured since going into exile. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3mmlIN2

Iran on Saturday executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, authorities said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3qPwlv4

Several Christian families in India remain in hiding following a brutal mob attack by tribal animists that sent 21 Christians to local hospitals. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3m8BRVW

Four Christian preachers in the United Kingdom, known as "the Bristol Four," will challenge the Avon and Somerset Police Departments over their arrests following an incident caught on video in 2016.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/340PP6g

Multiple religious freedom battles are unfolding right now in Canada, and it's all about harsh COVID restrictions against the right to worship. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2IEHYUs

Thirty miles of rural Missouri separate the two churches, and so much else. One is mostly white; the other hosts services in five languages for a flock that spans the world.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Kd65dm

China is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy. That warning comes from a top US intelligence official who says America should also prepare for an open-ended period of confrontation with Beijing. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2JGxR24

Norway's government has now barred its citizens from speaking against transgender people even in their own homes.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3n2i4J9

A 24-year-old Christian woman was killed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan after her parents rejected a marriage proposal and an invitation to convert to Islam by two Muslim men. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2JLMAsp

Health officials and experts are still baffled by a mysterious illness that has left over 500 people hospitalized and one person dead in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3oyiPtN

Geneva's Christian community is celebrating after a Swiss court suspended a ban on religious worship and events. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3lVkXtO

This will be your future if some powerful people at the World Economic Forum get their way: you'll own nothing and "be happy about it." Energy will be green, rationed, and expensive, and travel will be restricted. Your diet will be controlled, and currency will be digital. This left-wing dystopian dream is called the Great Reset, and you're supposed to be excited about it.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2VRIZeF

Authorities in Hawaii arrested a couple after the pair boarded a flight with their 4-year-old son knowing they had tested positive for COVID-19. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3ordjsW

A family in Australia was shocked to find a cute and cuddly intruder hiding inside their Christmas tree. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/33JtIAT

Later this month, you can witness a rare event in the night sky that has not been seen in almost eight centuries.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3lJ0fNZ

Tensions are running high in the Egyptian village of Barsha after a mob of radical Muslims attacked local Christians over allegations that a Coptic Christian man posted a comment on his Facebook page they deemed insulting to Islam. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/36C1n1t

Communist China's crackdown on free speech in Hong Kong has landed pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong in jail. The 24-year-old has been sentenced to 13-and-a-half months in prison for his role in a protest near police headquarters in 2019.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2VvoxjM

Britain's High Court ruled Tuesday that children under the age of 16 who are considering gender reassignment are not mature enough to give consent to receive puberty-blocking drugs.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/33AnpQa

The Christmas season puts a particularly intense strain on vulnerable Christians around the world and, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the persecution believers are facing this year is even greater than usual. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3g4Uc4T

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers prevented a church from holding a drive-in worship service by blocking the entrance with their squad cars. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3oeiw7u

Islamic militants are suspected in the killing of 110 rice farmers and fishermen in Nigeria last weekend while they were harvesting their crops. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3qkNQTC

Physicians in the Netherlands are now authorized to sedate dementia patients - without prior approval - before euthanizing them if it is conceivable that they will become "agitated or aggressive" while the doctor gears up to end their life. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/37jEDm0

Muslim terror groups are launching attacks across several African nations. Foremost is Nigeria, where tens of thousands of Christians have died as part of what human rights activists call a Christian genocide across the continent.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3fSIwCn