Muslims in a village in Indonesia stopped a church choir from rehearsing on Sunday evening (Dec. 1) for a Christmas service on the false premise that the Christians needed permission from community leaders, sources said.
The Communion of Churches in Korea (CCIK) has joined a growing chorus of voices among Korean churches calling for the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) to halt plans to hold its next General Assembly (GA) in Seoul. In a statement published on Monday (Dec. 2), CCIK – WEA’s national member body in Korea – issued a statement criticizing WEA’s behind-the-scenes negotiations with churches that do not belong to the global body, warning it could lead to “division and conflict”.
Asian Evangelicals are leading the way with fresh theological thinking as they embrace local theologizing at the grass roots of the Church to deepen our understanding of integral mission.
On December 3, President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, marking a historic and controversial moment in South Korean politics. This is the first instance of martial law since 1979 and the first since the country’s democratization in 1987. The president characterized the legislative actions of the Democratic Party of Korea as insurrectionary and a direct threat to the nation's constitutional order.
Is there hope for children with a disability when their disability is as the result of a curse? Yes! But it requires speaking truth: that they are made in God’s image, that they are invited into God’s kingdom just as they are, and that God has a perfect plan for their life.
The World Evangelical Alliance’s (WEA) announcement to hold its General Assembly (GA) next year in Seoul continues to stir up strong reactions among church groups in the proposed host country with the Christian Council of Korea (CCK) issuing a third statement calling for the plans to be put on hold due to controversies and the risk of creating further division.
The Christian hope is not misplaced or empty. As advent begins, we need to cling to a hope eternal, one that seeks the glory of God not our earthly desires. The pathway to that hope leads through suffering, but following that path will not leave us disappointed.
The Rev. Jan C. Wessels, who serves as Co-General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) alongside Co-General Secretary Connie Main Duarte, recently shared some of his reflections with Christian Daily International about his personal experience at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne 4) in Incheon, Korea.
A judge has overturned a verdict that denied a Christian’s effort to correct his name and religion on his national identity card as he was a victim of fake conversion to Islam, his attorney said.
Authorities in Indonesia are allowing two years of uncollected garbage to pile up next to a church building and a Catholic university, sources said.
A pastor and his family have gone into hiding after a Muslim neighbor who raped his 14-year-old daughter tried to kidnap her and force her to convert to Islam and marry her, he said.
Once known as the “city of churches” with 90 church buildings listed in the inner zone during the year 1893, the Canadian city of Toronto today has become known as a multicultural metropolis with diverse faiths and beliefs. While nowadays only just under half of the population identify as Christian, a new initiative highlighted the historical and contemporary importance of Christianity for the city leading the Toronto City Council to proclaim December as “Christian Heritage Month.”
