March 2009 Headlines
In America alone, some 500,000 frozen embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization are being stored in hospitals and infertility clinics.
With the global recession affecting Cambodia, humanitarian workers say that more young women are being victimized and trapped into human trafficking and prostitution.
CWN.org - Taxi drivers in Korea are collecting not just earthly fares, but heavenly rewards as well.
All kinds of women show up at the Good Shepherd Prison in Paraguay for crimes from drug trafficking to murder and robbery.
Fighting between rival drug cartels has threatened the country's government as well as relations with the U.S.
Most would agree that what people wear can speak volumes about who they are, and a Christian clothing store is taking that assumption literally.
From its open support of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, to its push for nuclear weapons and threats to wipe America and Israel off the map, Iran has become the undisputed champion of radical Islam.
CWN.org -- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are people who have never heard about Jesus - until now. This Easter, a group of U.S. volunteers will celebrate the holiday by taking the JESUS film to the Budu-koya, Budu-neta, Lika, Mangbetu and Mayogo people groups of Eastern Congo.
In the United Kingdom, some Christians have been prevented from preaching the gospel to Muslims.
CWN.org- Certain that Chinese authorities are torturing Christian human rights activist Gao Zhisheng following the escape of his family to the United States, advocacy group China Aid Association today urged the international community to take action on his behalf.
CBNNews.com - A California street preacher has won the right to continue sharing his faith with others in public.
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CWN.org - Turkey's decision last month to try two Christians under a revised version of a controversial law for "insulting Turkishness" because they spoke about their faith came as a blow to the country's record of freedom of speech and religion.
CWN.org - An estimated 1,700 persons attended the dedication and opening ceremony and more than 120 people were baptized in the Jordan River at a new Baptism Center on Friday, March 20, by pastors from the Jordan Baptist Convention.
CWN.org - Having been sentenced to die by leftist rebels for holding Christian worship services in 2006, a pastor in Colombia's northern department of Arauca took seriously the death threats that guerrillas issued on March 13th , according to Christian support organization Open Doors.
When it comes to ministering in the Muslim world evangelist Marilyn Hickey starts out with three strikes against her.
Friday marked the six-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
A British minister was brutally beaten this week after discussions with Muslims on his gospel program.
It is said that in Guatemala, a new church or ministry is born each day.
U.S. President Barack Obama will endorse a UN declaration calling for a worldwide decriminalization of homosexuals, according to the Associated Press.
This week in Africa, Pope Benedict spoke out strongly against the use of condoms to fight AIDS.
Currently, three-quarters of AIDS cases are in Africa, and while this figure is daunting, there are groups facing the problem head-on.
Conservative evangelical groups are set to meet with President Obama's new Office of Faith-Based Initiatives next week.
CBNNews.com - The president of Sudan is calling for all international aid groups to leave his country within a year.
When people hear of the small town of Nokia, Finland, they're likely to think think one thing--cell phones.
CBNNews.com - A Christian musician and a team of missionaries from the United States were recently denied entry into the United Kingdom under new immigration rules that require religious workers to obtain a visa.
A recent church shooting that resulted in the death of an Illinois pastor has raised concern over church safety.
Few people have escaped from Colombia's notorious FARC terrorists, but American Marc Gonsalves is one of the exceptions.
CWN.org - Voters in the Central American nation of El Salvador go to the polls to elect a new president this week.
An Israeli military intelligence officer warns that Iran has now "crossed the technological threshold."
CBNNews.com - Catholics in Connecticut are rallying against a state bill that would change the structure of their church.
A man was charged with murder Monday for allegedly shooting a southern Illinois pastor through the heart during Sunday services.
SAN BLAS ISLANDS, Panama - If you want to find the major source of United States' illegal drug problem, you have to look no further than Latin America.
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CBNNews.com - At least 13 humanitarian aid agencies in Sudan have been ordered to leave Darfur since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant, Wednesday, for the country's president.
Christian missionary Michael Dawson has lived anything but an ordinary life.
The Hindu nationalist government in the southern state of Karnataka, which recorded the second highest number of attacks on Christians last year, is planning to introduce the kind of "anti-conversion" law that has provided the pretext for anti-Christian violence in other states.
You're just as likely see the first lady of Peru on a struggling farm handing out shovels as in the presidential palace sipping tea.
This week, the U.S. State Department released a report criticizing China's human rights record.
CBNNews.com - People in the church are not immune to tough economic times and more and more churches see this as a perfect chance to teach financial lessons God's way.