Articles by CDI Staff
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A coalition of South Korean civic and Christian organizations gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Monday to demand that Beijing immediately halt the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors, calling the practice a violation of international law and an affront to basic human dignity. -
Evangelical leaders join Kyiv prayer breakfast, call on world not to grow weary of Ukraine's war
A delegation of evangelical leaders from across Europe stood with more than 1,500 participants from 17 countries at Ukraine's third National Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, Aug. 23, offering prayers of solidarity with a nation still at war four and a half years after Russia's full-scale invasion, as it prepares to mark 35 years of independence. -
TikTok agrees to pay $400 million over child privacy violations
TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the social media platform of systematically collecting personal data from children under the age of 13 without parental consent, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday (Aug. 21). -
'Thou shalt not steal,' Huckabee says in warning to settlers targeting Palestinian Americans' West Bank properties
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has warned militant Israeli settlers against seizing properties owned by Palestinian Americans in the occupied West Bank, calling such actions "a violation of God's law" and raising the prospect of U.S. sanctions against those responsible. -
China's propaganda is already shaping what AI tells the world
China is using artificial intelligence data exports to embed Communist Party narratives into the world's chatbots, with researchers already documenting measurable pro-Beijing bias in responses generated by American models. -
Swiss pro-life groups petition against mandatory insurance coverage for abortions
A coalition of Swiss pro-life organizations has launched a petition opposing a parliamentary decision that would make abortions fully funded by the country's mandatory health insurance starting next year. -
China's humanoid robots are learning to do real work, including domestic chores
Humanoid robots sorting warehouse parcels, packing smartphones on factory assembly lines and helping with household chores took center stage at a major robotics conference in Beijing this week, as Chinese companies showed evidence that the machines are moving into practical, everyday use. -
Melanoma vaccine success sparks hope for broader cancer treatment
A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna has shown success in preventing the return of melanoma in a large clinical trial, raising hopes that the same approach could eventually be used against many other types of cancer. -
Survey finds only half of South Korean church teens confident in the gospel, with family playing key role
Fewer than half of female middle and high school students in South Korean churches say they are confident in the Christian gospel, and youth worship attendance remains well below pre-pandemic levels, according to a major new survey of the country's next generation of churchgoers. -
Barna book argues worldview gap explains why many Christians think like the culture
A new book from Christian researcher George Barna argues that the reason many people who call themselves Christians think and live indistinguishably from the broader culture comes down to a missing foundation — not a lack of sincerity, but the absence of a coherent biblical worldview -
UN warns children are 'guinea pigs' for unregulated AI as online risks mount
The United Nations is calling on governments, technology companies and advertisers to act on what it describes as a pressing and consequential policy challenge — the safety, rights and digital future of the world's most connected generation. -
Oskar Brüsewitz: Church in Germany marks 50 years since pastor burned himself in protest of communist rule
Fifty years after a Lutheran pastor set himself ablaze in a public square to protest communist oppression of the church, German Christians remember a man whose act reverberated through East Germany and beyond.
