French senators rejected an assisted dying bill Monday (May 11) that alarmed pro-life advocates because it proposed prison terms and heavy fines for anyone accused of influencing patients away from euthanasia. Christian groups opposing the legislation are now urging the National Assembly to uphold the Senate’s decision when the bill returns for another reading.
Migrating to another country carries with it many kinds of trauma, which need to be properly processed on the pathway to good mental health. Scripture maps that pathway well in various ways, perhaps no more succinctly than passing through the waters, where God promises to be present for those who look to him.
The relationship between Christians and Zionism in the Holy Land is a dissonant one. While Zionists are willing to relate to Christian Zionists for their multifaceted support, Jewish religious leaders find the end-times theology of Christian Zionism deeply uncomfortable. Add Palestinians into the mix and the reality becomes very complex.
A wave of crime against UK and French churches does not indicate persecution, but is still revealing. It indicates that the declining moral standing of Christianity in Western European life matters, not as a theological problem but as an increasingly serious sociological one.
Back in pop culture with the release of a new biopic movie, the story of Michael Jackson makes for a striking case study of what happens when our identity dislocated. His life reveals the deep needs inside all of us that only knowing Jesus can truly meet.
The Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden, Germany’s Federation of Free Pentecostal Churches, reported a membership increase of more than 22% over the past two years, adding more than 15,000 members across its network of congregations.
A Northern Ireland court on Thursday (May 7) fined a retired Baptist pastor for preaching at a worship service near an abortion clinic, a move the minister called a “dark day for Christian freedom.”
