(Pakistan by Omer Wazir via Flickr)

Last week an armed Muslim mob attacked a Christian community near Karachi but the police ended up filing charges against 40 Christians who defended their homes and actually arrested 5 Christians.
According Compass Direct:
Some 150 armed Muslims assaulted the Christian colony of Pahar Ganj in North Nazimabad, Karachi, on Sunday (Feb. 21), [...]

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Today the US Supreme Court refused to block same-sex marriage in Washington DC. The head of DC’s marriage bureau says that same-sex couples can begin applying for marriage licenses tomorrow- on Wednesday.
The DC council approved the same-sex measure in December and Mayor Adrian Fenty signed it. Meanwhile 100’s [...]

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According to Compass Direct, last month more than 100 local Lao officials in Katin village of Ta-Oyl district, Saravan Province forced 48 Christians to leave their worship service by gunpoint.
Then the officials marched them 4 miles out of town and left them there to fend for themselves.
Guards have been posted at the entrance [...]

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A new campaign called ‘Believe Out Loud’ has been launched to encourage Christians to not only support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people but to speak out and not be silent. The new movement is primarily targeting mainline denominations hoping that their influence and voices will heard and make inroads [...]

In Parade Magazine this week, Elton John raised a few eye brows when he claimed that Jesus was Gay:
“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him.”
However, before you think that the entertainer may have gotten ‘religious’ consider what he [...]

Christian apologist Ken Ham recently talked about the current ‘state’ of America and observed that the prevailing world view in the country was changing and secular humanism was replacing Christianity as the norm:
"Whatever we (America) once were, we are no longer. We have changed."
"Most of the founding fathers of this nation … built the [...]

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Senior Bishops in the Church of England are calling for a ‘carbon fast’ this year for Lent.
The church leaders are urging folks to give up their iPods and limit their use of technology for the penitent season leading up to Easter.
The Rt Rev James Jones-Bishop of Liverpool and the Rt Rev Richard Chartres- [...]