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A group of 15 Chinese Christians were detained after more than 20 police officers raided a house church in Sichuan province.
According to human rights organisation, China Aid, authorities interrupted a Bible study and accused the group of "illegally gathering a crowd to disturb public order".
All of those at the house church were detained by police for 15 days. Their church seating, projectors and air conditioning equipment were confiscated.
That this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 12.
12: After Clause 32, insert the following new Clause—
"Education relating to relationships and sex."
Lambeth Palace is pleased to announce the appointment of the Rt Revd Tim Thornton, the current Bishop of Truro, as the new Bishop at Lambeth. Bishop Tim will take up this post in September, replacing the Rt Revd Nigel Stock, who is retiring.
His duties at Lambeth will include supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury's work in the House of Bishops, General Synod and the Archbishop's Council. He will also be heavily involved in the Lambeth Conference 2020, and take on the role of Bishop to the Forces.
Three years ago when Dr Tilat Rubina was appointed health officer of Athani taluka in Karnataka's Belagavi district, she received complaints of illegal sex-determination tests being conducted by Dr S Ghodake, a homeopath at Kagwad village. Rubina reports having visited Ghodake's clinic six times in the last three years but found nothing.
"It was always locked," she said. "Once a boy, who I think was Ghodake's son, opened the clinic for me and there was nothing inside except some bricks."
Rubina said she was afraid to check on the clinic at night.
Unwanted human embryos adopted by couples who could not conceive and born into their new family are now being reconnected with their biological parents.
Nightlight Christian Adoptions began pairing discarded embryos in fertility clinics with families in 1997.
This summer Snowflakes, the agency's foetus-matching spin off, will celebrate its 20th anniversary by reconnecting recipient parents and their children with embryo providers.
Following the recent attack in Westminster, the temptation to increase tensions between Christianity and Islam was rejected almost immediately.
It began with a vigil outside Westminster Abbey, only two days after Khalid Masood's murderous attack that took the lives of four people, including PC Keith Palmer, and injured more than 35 others.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Chief Rabbi and two British imams gathered on Westminster's North Green, embodying interfaith unity in the shadow of a horrifying attack.
The U.S. will discontinue funding for the U.N. agency that deals with family planning and reproductive health, claiming that its operations violate an antiabortion policy enacted by the Trump Administration.
Reuters reports that the State Department issued a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday announcing that it will no longer fund the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), which provides maternal- and child-health services in more than 150 countries worldwide.
The letter said the decision was reached because the agency "supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization" in China, a claim that the UNFPA calls "erroneous."
When individuals receive a pay rise they are less likely to go to church, a study has indicated.
A rise of about £10,000 per year made a churchgoer six per cent less likely to attend at least one service a month, researchers from the University of Manchester found.
They analysed data from more than 24,000 people. Ingrid Storm, a research fellow at the university who specialises in the sociology of religion, said that the findings indicated that churches provided a support network to those on lower incomes and that people felt less need of such a community when they were better off.
Nearly eight in 10 parents believe their children should be taught lessons in mental health, a survey has revealed.
According to the poll, 79 per cent of parents felt pupils should receive lessons in mental health, while 45 per cent believed their child’s school was failing to look after their mental well-being.
The YouGov survey of nearly 1,000 parents comes as more than 50,000 people have signed a petition demanding that classes in mental health be made compulsory in all schools in the UK.
The Church of England has accused the National Trust of "airbrushing faith" after it dropped the word "Easter" from its annual Easter egg hunt.
The annual event, which sees hundreds of thousands of children search for chocolate eggs at National Trust properties, has been rebranded to exclude Easter for the first time in 10 years.
In previous years it has been called an "Easter Egg Trail", however this year it has been renamed the "Great British Egg Hunt".