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Joel Smallbone on for KING & COUNTRY'S 'important' hiatus, Christmas comeback: 'Grand reset'

US & Canada Society & Culture

23 Jul, 2025 09:53 EDT

For KING & COUNTRY is going from Christmas to Christmas, and making history along the way. After stepping back from the touring spotlight for a year of creative rest and renewal, the Grammy-winning duo will return to the stage this December with A Drummer Boy Christmas: The Live Experience, concluding with a five-night holiday residency at the Grand Ole Opry House, marking the longest artist residency ever held at the iconic Nashville venue.
Relatives of Muslim pressure Christian family to drop rape charges

Asia Religious Freedom

23 Jul, 2025 08:41 EDT

Relatives of a Muslim in Pakistan who raped a 14-year-old Christian girl are threatening her family to compel them to drop charges, sources said.
Report: Rwanda's religious regulation laws that closed thousands of churches 'do not meet international human rights standards'

Africa Religious Freedom

23 Jul, 2025 05:10 EDT

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has determined that Rwanda's current regulations and restrictions do not meet international human rights standards. In its submission to the Universal Periodic Review on July 16, 2025, WEA has urged the Government of Rwanda to review the 2018 law on Faith-based Organisations and its 2015 amendment and related guidelines, suggesting that the law is in contravention of Rwanda's constitution.
UN expert warns gender ideology undermines protections for women and girls: ‘You cannot protect what you cannot define’

Europe Society & Culture Family & Children Health

22 Jul, 2025 20:59 EDT

A United Nations human rights expert has issued a stark warning that the erasure of biological sex in international policy and discourse is causing grave harm to women and girls, weakening protections against gender-based violence and silencing those who defend sex-based rights.
Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76; Rock legend’s life marked by music, turmoil and a complex faith

Europe Society & Culture

22 Jul, 2025 20:57 EDT

Ozzy Osbourne, the iconic frontman of Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, died Tuesday at his home in Buckinghamshire, England, surrounded by his family. He was 76.

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Jul 22, 2025 20:38 EDT

Africa Religious Freedom

Muslim relatives of new Christian break into home to kill him

By Morning Star News

Muslim relatives of a Christian convert in eastern Uganda on Friday (July 18) forced their way into his locked home and killed him, sources said. As he had done since accepting Christ in April, Kasajja Abdul Maliki of Kaliro village, Kaliro District had locked himself in his house during Friday mosque service to pray and study the Bible when his Muslim relatives burst in and stabbed him to death, his niece said. He was 37.
Jul 22, 2025 14:56 EDT

Europe Health Family & Children

UK babies born using DNA from three people raise ethical questions

By CDI Staff

Eight babies have been born in the United Kingdom using DNA from three people to prevent deadly hereditary diseases, a scientific breakthrough hailed by doctors but raising ethical concerns among some scientists as well as Christian groups, according to reporting by the BBC and Christian Today in the U.K.
Jul 22, 2025 05:19 EDT

Latin America Church & Missions

Argentina investigates pastor of $50M 'miraculous dollars' mega-church where President Milei spoke

By Lizzie Sotola

The federal court of Chaco Province, Argentina, on Monday (July 21) authorized Prosecutor Patricio Sabadini and Judge Zunilda Niremperger to lift the tax, banking, and financial secrecy of Pastor Jorge Ledesma, his family, a foundation, and a company linked to the Iglesia Cristiana Internacional (International Christian Church).
Jul 21, 2025 16:45 EDT

US & Canada Society & Culture

Latest Superman film offers fresh opportunities for evangelism, Denison Forum writer says

By CDI Staff

The latest Superman film, Superman (2025), has sparked cultural reflection not just in entertainment circles but also among Christian commentators who see in it a surprising opportunity for evangelism. Mark Legg, former associate editor at Denison Forum and now a philosophy graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, explored the film’s deeper cultural and spiritual themes in a recent review titled A Cultural Commentary on “Superman”: From Modernism, to Postmodernism, to Metamodernism.
Jul 21, 2025 15:35 EDT

US & Canada Church & Missions

Greg Laurie leads Harvest Crusade at Angel Stadium in California, 6,500 make professions of faith

By CDI Staff

More than 45,000 people packed Angel Stadium on Saturday night for the annual Harvest Crusade, an evangelistic event led by pastor Greg Laurie, with another 200,000 tuning in online and over 500 radio stations broadcasting live across the U.S.
Jul 21, 2025 14:07 EDT

Global Religious Freedom

Christianity faces being ‘wiped out,’ UK’s FoRB envoy warns amid intensifying persecution

By The Christian Post

Christianity is at risk of being “wiped out” in parts of the world due to intensifying persecution, the United Kingdom’s special envoy for freedom of religion or belief, David Smith, has warned. The British government is now targeting 10 countries as part of its revised foreign policy focus to defend this human right.
Jul 21, 2025 13:50 EDT

Caribbean Society & Culture

Jamaican TV presenter Winford Williams survives dramatic car crash, praises 'God’s grace' that injuries are not severe

By Chris Eyte

One of Jamaica’s best-known television entertainment presenters, journalist Winford Williams, is thanking “God’s grace” after surviving a dramatic car crash that left him hospitalized but with no life-threatening injuries.

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