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Deathbed conversions: What the case of atheist Christopher Hitchens can teach us
Excitable reports on social media spread like wildfire this week. One of the world's most famous and strident non-believers may have had a deathbed conversion. It seemed incredible.
20 million out-of-school Arab kids easy targets for recruitment by ISIS, Christian TV station warns
As many as 20 million Arab children are either out of school or are very much at risk of losing their schooling due to various reasons, according to Christian satellite television station SAT-7 which has a ministry in the Middle East and North Africa.
Christian pastor murdered in Uganda after challenging Arabic mythologies
A Christian pastor has died in Uganda after being poisoned with insecticide. He had previously survived being attacked with knives.
Why Amnesty's position on prostitution is abhorrent
Amnesty has come out very heavily in favour of decriminalising all aspects of adult prostitution.
The future of the West is 'at risk' warns former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
The Western world is in crisis and its very future is "at risk" because of its misuse of new technologies, the former Chief Rabbi warned last night.
Egypt: President Sisi promises justice after 70-year-old Christian woman stripped and beaten
The President of Egypt has promised justice after Christians homes were torched and an elderly Coptic woman was stripped naked and beaten in the streets of an Egyptian village.
Youth pastors are too often 'crushed', says Christian awards programme
A Christian-run awards programme says that those called to minister to youth are often left feeling undervalued to the point of being "crushed".
'Celebrate suffragettes not serial killers', church tells Londoners
A church in east London has joined with campaigners for women's rights to host a pop-up exhibition about the history of women's achievements in the area
How to avoid being the next fallen leader
The news comes with depressing regularity â another shiny, charismatic, high-profile Christian leader has gone and had an affair.
Jesus and the Samaritan woman: How holy truth-telling changes lives
John 4: 1-26 contains a wonderful story of an encounter with Jesus.
Why you can't just love Jesus but hate the Church
It's a familiar phrase, and one that most of us have uttered in some form or other: "I like Jesus; the problem is the Church."
To End Modern Slavery, Society Must Change
To genuinely want to see the end of slavery means an up-ending of the current inequalities that have brought them about in the first place and a willingness to see and live differently.
Up-close and personal with Mars: Space enthusiasts to get best view of Red Planet on May 30
Mars will be at its closest to the Earth in 11 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced, giving space enthusiasts to have a great view of the fourth planet in the solar system.
World's largest Muslim organisation admits extremism problem springs from Islamic teachings
The largest Muslim organization in the world recently admitted that bad elements of Islam are indeed part of the extremism problem.
Are scientists trying to create monsters by making embryos that are part human, part animal?
A small group of researchers are attempting to develop embryos that are part human, part animal, prompting some members of the scientific community to raise concerns of the possible negative implications of the experiments.
Scientists trying to resurrect extinct woolly mammoth through 'de-extinction' process
Several scientists are experimenting on steps to resurrect the woolly mammoth, in a process called "de-extinction" that has long been thought to be theoretically possible.