Christian Today
Mustard Seed
"He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches...
Passion Recut Opens To Empty Cinemas
Although edited in hopes of attracting a wider audience, Mel Gibson's "The Passion Re-cut" opened to mostly empty cinemas last weekend in the US, having an average of less than ten people per showing...
'Mercy Ships' Arrives in War-Ravaged Liberia
The world’s largest non-governmental hospital ship arrived in Monrovia, Liberia today for its first-ever visit to the war-torn West African nation. At the urging of United Nations officials...
First Wave of Montagnard Christians Return to Vietnam
Nine refugees from Vietnam's Montagnard hill tribe who fled to Cambodia have voluntarily returned home, a senior official of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Saturday...
Nigeria Christians May Boycott Census
The northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have threatened that it would mobilise Christians to boycott the national census if the religion and ethnicity categories are not placed on questionnaires...
Vietnam Police Raid Prayer Meeting at House of Imprisoned Church Leader
Police disbanded a women's prayer meeting in Ho Chi Minh City at the home of a jailed Vietnamese Church leader and briefly detained 10 men who came to their aid, a media agency reported Thursday...
One More 'Mennonite Six' Member Released in Vietnam
A Christian persecution watchdog group announced yesterday the release of one of the "Mennonite Six" arrested in March 2004. On Mar. 3, 2005, Nguyen Van Phuong reportedly became the third among the six to be released...
Bolivian Evangelicals Tell Country to Repent
As the poorest country in South America faces social and political disorder, the National Association of Evangelicals of Bolivia (ANDEB) has called for nationwide repentance...
Agencies Reach Out to Aid Tens of Thousands Cut Off in Afghanistan
After Afghanistan's worst winter weather in a decade led to the deaths of more than 500 people, tens of thousands have been cut off by heavy snowfall and are suffering from food shortages and outbreaks of disease...
Botswana Christian Council Vice-President to Campaign Against Death Penalty
Reverend Kebinang Moenga, the vice president of the Botswana Christian Council (BCC) said that he intends to launch a massive campaign against capital punishment -- a practice he dubbed as a social evil...
Domestic Divisions Arise Within ECUSA
The dispute over the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA)'s decision to ordain an actively gay man as bishop has not yet formalised into a full-fledged Anglican division at an international scale, but it continues to shred the fragile fabric...
Vietnam Human Rights Deadline Approaches
U.S and Vietnamese officials are holding intensive talks ahead of next week's deadline to decide if Vietnam remains on the U.S. State Department's "worst-offender" list for religious violations...
Imprisoned Iranian Pastor may Face Death Penalty
Tehran, Iran - A military court in Iran has sentenced Christian pastor Hamid Pourmand to jail for three years and has ordered his immediate transfer to a group prison cell in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison...
Food Program Growth and Development in Aceh Province
The Tsunami Response Team of one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world is targeting new camps and communities of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh Province...
First Major Prayer Movement Unites Sydney Anglicans
A call for focused prayer from Easter Sunday, March 27 to Ascension Day, May 5 has been taken up by over 70 parishes that are rallying congregations in prayer for everyone to respond to God in repentance and faith...
Open Doors World Watchlist Released
For the third straight year, the isolated communist nation of North Korea remains atop an annual list of countries where Christians are persecuted most. Over the past few years, the Open Doors International "World Watch List" has...