Filipino Catholics crucify themselves in gruesome Easter reenactment
As Christians around the world celebrate Easter, several devout believers in the Philippines are taking it a step further by reenacting the crucifixion for real, in a practice frowned upon by Church leaders in Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation. A number of male Catholic devotees in San Fernando City performed a bloody reenactment of the […]
African Pentecostalism Has Given Birth To A New Breed Of Mentally Lazy Christians Who See God As A Rewarder Of Mediocrity
”Africa is currently experiencing another form of slavery through Pentecostalism. We are now mentally lazy and our ability to reason scientifically has been incapacitated. The African pastor won’t talk about Usain Bolt or Serena Williams. The African Pastor won’t talk about Steve Jobs or the young people in Silicon Valley reshaping our world. They won’t […]
Why Jesus’ parables make us uncomfortable
It was once said, “religion is designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.” Jesus’ parables — short stories with moral lessons — were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and salvation, sure. But, their first listeners […]
Egypt’s Christians flee Sinai amid Islamic State killing spree
Christian families and students fled Egypt’s North Sinai province in droves on Friday after Islamic State killed the seventh member of their community in just three weeks. A Reuters reporter saw 25 families gathered with their belongings in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia’s Evangelical Church and church officials said 100 families, out of around […]
‘Jesus Hasn’t Saved Us’: The Young Black Women Returning to Ancestral Religions
Michelle Yaa does not feel she converted to Comfa, the Afro-American religion practiced in Guyana. “I call it an awakening.” she says. “It’s just waking up.” Yaa, like increasing numbers of the African diaspora, decided to stop practicing Christianity in favor of a religion of African heritage. Raised a Seventh Day Adventist, she spent her […]
US President Donald Trump Says Christians in Middle East Have Been ‘Executed in Large Numbers’
US President Donald Trump has declared his support for Christians ‘executed in large numbers’ in the Middle East, two days after he issued an immigration order that barred citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Trump faced nationwide protests and scathing criticism after signing an executive order on Friday that put a four-month […]
George Weah Assures Muslims in Liberia of Religious Tolerance
Montserrado County senator and standard bearer of the newly formed Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) George Manneh Weah has reassured the Islamic community of his unwavering support of religious tolerance in Liberia. Speaking at the induction ceremony of the student council government of the Muslim Congress High School recently, Senator Weah reminded the audience how […]
Rwandan Pastor Forces All 480 Members Of His congregation To Convert To Islam And Change Their Church To A Mosque
RWANDAN clergyman has conducted what is arguably the largest conversion of Christians to Islam when he successfully got all 480 members of his congregation to switch faiths last Tuesday. In a first such mass conversion of its kind, Pastor Mikdad apparently got all the members of his flock to switch faith. According to one church […]
Palestinian religious leaders – both Muslims and Christians – signed a declaration stating that Jews have no right to enter the Temple Mount
Palestinian religious leaders – both Muslims and Christians – signed a declaration stating that Jews have no right to enter the Temple Mount at a press conference in east Jerusalem on Wednesday. The declaration, titled “the Blessed Aksa Mosque Document” and signed by scores of religious figures, expressed their objections to Israeli and Jordanian understandings […]
800 Christians join Shiite militias battling ISIS
The Hashd al-Shaabi Shiite militias, also called Popular Mobilization Units, are training 800 Christian volunteers to battle ISIS in its stronghold Mosul, a source from the Babylon Battalion told the Iraqi Al-Mada newspaper. “As local forces prepare for the Mosul operation to clear out ISIS gunmen, 800 Christian volunteers have also joined the Battalion of […]
