Special to WorldTribune.com Meriam Ibrahim, arrested last August in Sudan and sentenced to death after being accused by family members of apostasy and adultery, was not only pressured to recant her Christian faith and thereby nullify her marriage, but was kept in shackles while giving birth to her second child in prison. “I am a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com H.G. Wells “I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” George Washington “Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion… A […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ISIS militants took sledgehammers to Iraqi tombstones – smashing them to pieces. The rebels, who are members of the Islamic State terror group, were filmed attacking centuries-old graves in the north-west city of Mosul in Ninevah province. Donning balaclavas and black coats, they swung sledgehammers into the tombs, causing pieces of dust […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A Kentucky woman has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Bank, claiming that the company fired her for saying “Have a blessed day.” Polly Neace told Fox News on Sunday that she picked up the phrase after somebody told it to her “and I thought, ‘what a wonderful thing to say to somebody.’ […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Members of terror group Boko Haram have allegedly been arrested in Nigeria after fleeing a forest to escape deadly bites from “mystical bees” and “mysterious snakes”. According to Nigerian newspaper Vanguard, the captured insurgents claimed the creatures — possessed by ghosts — had killed many Boko Haram members. “We were told that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BRUNSWICK, Me. — For 40 years, evangelicals at Bowdoin College have gathered periodically to study the Bible together, to pray and to worship. They are a tiny minority on the liberal arts college campus, but they have been a part of the school’s community, gathering in the chapel, the dining center, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The family and followers of one of India’s wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle over whether he is dead or simply in a deep state of meditation. His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order with a property estate worth an estimated […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Some religious leaders say America is facing a spiritually dark time. “At the root of America’s problem, we really have a spiritual cancer that’s been eating away at our nation,” Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, told CBN News. Retired Gen. Jerry Boykin, … […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Twenty-seven-year-old Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who is already the mother of a 20-month-old son, was convicted of apostasy on Sunday and given four days to abandon her faith. On Thursday, Judge Abbas al-Khalifa […]
VATICAN CITY — A darling of liberal Catholics and an advocate of inclusion and forgiveness, Pope Francis is hardly known for fire and brimstone. Yet, in his words and deeds, the new pope is locked in an epic battle with the oldest enemy of God and creation: The Devil. … “ ‘But Father, how old-fashioned you […]