Jay Gotera

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• Jun 23, 2017

  Christians Escape Terrorist-Besieged Philippine City With Help From Muslims Who Lent Them Their Hijabs

  Some Christians trapped in the terrorist-besieged Marawi City in the Philippines have been able to escape, thanks to Muslim residents who lent them their hijabs to camouflage their faith from the Islamist extremists.

• Jun 23, 2017

  Christian School Gets Warning From Public Funding Body: Don't Teach Bible Passages That Are 'Offensive' to LGBT People

  "Absolutely shocking." That was the reaction of the head of a public Christian school in Canada upon receiving a letter from the government body providing its funds, warning that the school should not teach Bible passages that could be deemed "offensive" by some people, particularly the members of the LGBT community.

• Jun 20, 2017

  Jailed Vietnamese Pastor Punished Further After Telling U.S. Diplomats About Abuses Inflicted on Him By Prison Authorities

  An evangelical pastor already languishing in a prison in Vietnam was dealt more punishment by prison authorities after he revealed to a visiting U.S. diplomatic delegation about the abuses he had been subjected to.

• Jun 20, 2017

  Senior Iraqi Cleric Tries to Calm Agitated Christians After Saying They're 'Infidels' Who Must Be Killed

  A senior Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who angered Iraqi Christians when he called them "infidels" who must be killed if they don't convert or pay tax is trying to calm the storm.

• Jun 20, 2017

  High School Student Barred From Praying, Speaking Jesus' Name in Her Graduation Speech

  America is known as the land of the free and the home of the brave, but to Christians it is also increasingly becoming a land of the politically correct and a country where honor students can't mention God in their graduation speeches.

• Jun 20, 2017

  New York Church Defaced With Spray-Painted Images of Upside-Down Crosses, 'Witch Spells'

  A New York pastor dismissed the vandalism attack that hit his church last week as just "paint on the walls [and] no one got hurt," but it still spelled trouble for the Christian community and the police.

• Jun 20, 2017

  'Covert Awakening': New Novel Tells Real-Life Story of Terrorist Turned Christian Working to Save Innocent Lives

  There have been previous reports about Muslims turning to Christ in large numbers and Christianity spreading to more areas in the world. Now, this phenomenon is given greater clarity and dramatic appeal in a new novel titled "Covert Awakening."

• Jun 20, 2017

  4-Year-Old Girl Melts Troubled Police Officer's Heart With Show of Love and Compassion

  A police officer from Virginia owes a little girl he met on the street something that can never be brought or sold: joy.

• Jun 20, 2017

  Pastors Urged to Adopt Gang Members to Curb Street Violence: 'Help Them Develop a Conscience'

  Pastors as crime fighters? Yes, and why not? But they're not going to arm themselves and start shooting. No, that's definitely not what Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson of Dallas County, Alabama had in mind.

• Jun 20, 2017

  Insurance Companies Decline to Pay for Patients' Treatments, Offer Assisted Suicide Coverage Instead

  It's cheaper to kill than to support life. That, in essence, was the answer a doctor in Nevada received from two insurance companies when he sought to transfer two patients to another hospital to undergo medical procedures his hospital cannot provide.