http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26474/knesset-panel-strengthen-ties-with-s-american-evangelical-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26474/knesset-panel-strengthen-ties-with-s-american-evangelical-christians#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:07:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26474 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26474/knesset-panel-strengthen-ties-with-s-american-evangelical-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26241/iraq-converts-from-islam-find-persecution-is-tolerable-until-it-affects-their-children http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26241/iraq-converts-from-islam-find-persecution-is-tolerable-until-it-affects-their-children#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:18:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26241 In an Iraq torn by national and religious divides, there is no safe haven for Nuria’s family or other Arab families who convert from Islam.

Muslim family members, neighbors or employers who discover they are converts can make their lives unbearable.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26241/iraq-converts-from-islam-find-persecution-is-tolerable-until-it-affects-their-children/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26150/in-recession-hit-hungary-churches-take-over-state-schools http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26150/in-recession-hit-hungary-churches-take-over-state-schools#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:33:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26150 Local government officials in Hungary are handing state-owned schools over to churches, unable to afford their upkeep during the economic recession, according to church sources.

"Churches are entitled to run schools in Hungary as public service providers, receiving the same taxpayers' money as public sponsors," said Balazs Odor, ecumenical officer of Hungary's Reformed Church. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26150/in-recession-hit-hungary-churches-take-over-state-schools/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25975/wycliffe-bible-translators http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25975/wycliffe-bible-translators#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 08:26:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25975 Translators of U.S.-based Wycliffe Associates have launched two Bible translation projects in countries where evangelism, or even reading a Bible, is forbidden.

Wycliffe CEO Bruce Smith said among the nations targeted by his organization was at least one predominately Muslim country with a strongly Islamic government, where he claimed Christians face persecution, even from family members and neighbors.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25975/wycliffe-bible-translators/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25969/pilgrims-return-to-jesus-baptismal-site-as-israel-removes-landmines http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25969/pilgrims-return-to-jesus-baptismal-site-as-israel-removes-landmines#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 12:28:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25969 Pilgrims are flowing back to the traditional site of Jesus' baptism on the Jordan River as Israel removes 40-year-old land mines and improves the area, but barbed wire and armed soldiers testify to the area's tense past.

Located in a closed military area on the West Bank a few kilometers from Jericho, the site -- Qasr el Yahud -- has been revered since the fourth or fifth century as the place where John the Baptist recognized Jesus as the Messiah]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25969/pilgrims-return-to-jesus-baptismal-site-as-israel-removes-landmines/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25967/iran-court-acquits-11-evangelical-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25967/iran-court-acquits-11-evangelical-christians#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 09:00:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25967 Eleven members of one of Iran's largest evangelical house church movements, who were charged with ‘action against the order of the country’ and drinking alcohol, have been acquitted by an Iranian court, BosNewsLife learned Friday, May 20.

The charges referred to their involvement in a house church meeting and to taking communion wine, Iranian Christians said earlier.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25967/iran-court-acquits-11-evangelical-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25882/saudi-arabia-jails-house-church-christians-without-trial http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25882/saudi-arabia-jails-house-church-christians-without-trial#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:42:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25882 Two Indian Christians of a thriving Pentecostal house church in Saudi Arabia have been moved from pre-trial detention to a prison in the Saudi capital Ryadh where they are "forbidden to pray or read the Bible" and "suffer of a lack of food and medical attention."

The two were initially detained in January and received 45-days of "pre-trial detention" on charges of attempted proselytizing.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25882/saudi-arabia-jails-house-church-christians-without-trial/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25851/pastor-fired-for-not-believing-in-hell http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25851/pastor-fired-for-not-believing-in-hell#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:20:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25851
It was initially reported that Reverend Chad Holtz was dismissed from Marrow's Chapel in Henderson, North Carolina, when he posted a note on his Facebook page supporting a book written by prominent young evangelical pastor Rob Bell. But Holz explains it "was less a firing and more a divorce."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25851/pastor-fired-for-not-believing-in-hell/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25822/iran-christians-jailed-bibles-%e2%80%9cburned%e2%80%9d http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25822/iran-christians-jailed-bibles-%e2%80%9cburned%e2%80%9d#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:59:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25822 Five Iranian house church Christians were behind bars Wednesday, March 15, after being sentenced to one year imprisonment on charges of "crimes against the Islamic order" and there were reports that Iranian authorities have been burning Bibles.

The attacks come amid wider reported pressure on groups deemed dangerous by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25822/iran-christians-jailed-bibles-%e2%80%9cburned%e2%80%9d/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25821/pakistani-christian-sentenced-for-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-dies-in-prison-murder-suspected http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25821/pakistani-christian-sentenced-for-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-dies-in-prison-murder-suspected#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:53:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25821 Qamar David’s life had been threatened since he and a Muslim, Munawar Ahmad, were accused of sending derogatory text messages about Muhammad in June 2006, said David’s former lawyer, Pervaiz Chaudhry.

David was convicted under Section 295-C under Pakistan’s widely condemned blasphemy laws for derogatory remarks against Muhammad in a case registered at Karachi’s Azizabad Police Station, with another case registered at Saddar Police Station pending. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25821/pakistani-christian-sentenced-for-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-dies-in-prison-murder-suspected/feed 0