LEEDS, ENGLAND (ANS): A foster carer in the UK who was deregistered because she allowed a Muslim girl, 16, to convert to Christianity, is appealing the decision at Leeds High Court on April 27.
MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS): The United Nations humanitarian arm has reported that 4320 Iraqi Christians have been displaced following recent unrest in the northern city of Mosul in Iraq.
A CAMPUS atheist group has once again infuriated Christian students by staging its annual attention-seeking holy book-for-porn programme from March 1 at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
CALIFORNIA, USA (ANS): Middle East journalist Mary Abdelmassih, has told the ASSIST News Service that Egyptian Christians have launched a human rights TV channel in North America. She told ANS that “in an effort to spread awareness of the suffering of their besieged brethren in Egypt, Christian Copts in the United States have launched from California in mid-May 2010, the first Coptic human rights TV channel." Abdelmassih said it was called ‘Hope Sat TV’ and had a slogan of ‘Giving Hope to Those Without Hope’. Copts, she says, “have been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic Egypt for over 14 centuries.”
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ISRAEL/JORDAN (ANS): An environmental group has called on “regional authorities to halt baptism in the lower Jordan River until water quality standards for tourism activities were met”. According to Friends of the Earth Middle East the river, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist, is severely polluted, and the group is warning against future baptismal ceremonies. Untreated sewage, agricultural run-off, saline water and fish pond effluent has made the river unsafe for humans, said Gidon Bromberg of Friends of the Earth Middle East, according to a report in www.christiantoday.com. However, water tests released two weeks ago suggest otherwise, Eli Dror of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority told Reuters. “There’s absolutely no problem with the quality of the water. People can come and baptise here as much as they want, I guarantee it,” Dror said....
