Using as a pretext the “fasting sect” incident in Kenya, with French and Japanese influences, several African countries are cracking down on religious minorities. Now, it’s Uganda.
Concern also mounts about the Russian Orthodox Church’s increasing purchase of properties near military sites in Norway, which poses security issues.
The influential “Weekly Shincho” revealed the political reasons of what it called a “crude and childish” attempt to appease the Communist Party.
Czech judges finally ruled, defeating a stubborn prosecutor, that Jára and his co-worker Barbora Plášková should be freed from jail.
The strong experiences of the Australian artist with the Theosophical Masters and her involvement in the Leadbeater case led her to spend twenty years in a psychiatric hospital.
An attorney has been told he would not be allowed to enter courts if he does not renounce his faith. Four are accused as usual of having burned pages of the Quran.
The popular YouTuber was arrested for reading an anti-rape poem that allegedly includes a verse offensive to religion.
A young woman who took Scientology courses was assassinated. Before it came out that the crime had nothing to do with Scientology, some media and anti-cultists used the tragedy to attack the church.
Although deconstructed by ideologies, hope is not lost. It is a perennial possibility, even in the midst of the most horrible persecutions.
By divorcing Biblical faith from Greek reason, Luther, Kant, and Marx destroyed the roots of the Christian concept of hope.