The US-based Christian charity World Vision said Wednesday, March 10, it has suspended operations in Pakistan after militants stormed its offices, killing six staff members and injuring several others.

Hungary's President Lszl Slyom signed a law Wednesday, March 10, making denial, or playing down, of the Holocaust a criminal offense punishable by up to three years imprisonment.

A funeral service was underway Wednesday, March 10, for a former Hungarian chief rabbi who was persecuted under Communism because of his involvement in spreading the Jewish faith,the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (MAZSIHISZ) confirmed.

A young Christian man died of a heart attack after armed Muslim gunmen stormed his house in the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, where Islamic attacks against minority Christians are increasing, two advocacy groups said Wednesday, March 10.

The detained Assyrian pastor of an evangelical church in Iran has been tortured and told he may be executed for converting Muslims to Christianity and related charges, his wife and Christians with close knowledge about his situation said.

Bodies of the dead including many women and children lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages south of Nigeria's regional capital of Jos early Monday, March 8, after rioters armed with machetes "slaughtered" over 200 people here, witnesses said.

Minority Christians in Iraq anxiously awaited the outcome of a parliamentary vote testing the country's still fragile democracy Sunday, March 7, as suspected Islamic militants killed up to 30 people in the capital Baghdad and other areas of the troubled nation.

Thousands of Christians worldwide will unite in prayer for Burma next week as part of global day of prayer for the nation, organizers said.

Several bishops were detained Friday, March 5, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu where police halted a protest march against the alleged discrimination of Dalit Christians here and elsewhere in this mainly Hindu nation, Christian officials said.

Chinese security forces detained a prominent house church leader Thursday, March 4, at a restaurant in southern China where he and a dozen other Christians had lunch, Chinese Christians said.

I have long questioned the assumption that most genomic DNA sequences are nonsensical or junk. And given the data that have emerged over the past seven or so years, a functionalist view of genome has robust empirical support. It is for this reason that I think many of the arguments presented by the Biologos Foundation are wrong on many counts, to borrow a phrase from Darrel Falk. Here is an example. While reading the critique of Steve Meyers book, Signature in the Cell, by Francisco Ayala, a number struck me that I know to be incorrect. The integer that I...

For over a decade, mathematician Jeffrey Shallit has been an outspoken critic of intelligent design. Recently, in a series of blog posts, he has attacked Stephen Meyers book Signature in the Cell (SITC) for what he sees as a variety of shortcomings. Some of Shallits criticisms merit careful attention, which well present here in weeks to come. Other criticisms, however, are fluffy confections, failing to achieve even the slightness of what Hume called mere cavils and sophisms. Lets look at one such bonbon of sophistry, Shallits claim that weather forecasting represents a devastating counterexample to SITC's argument that complex specified...

Ive followed the back and forth between Francisco Ayala and Steve Meyer with interest. I happened to have just read Meyers book Signature in the Cell when I first saw Ayalas commentary/review on it at the Biologos Foundation website. My initial response was that Ayala obviously hadnt read the book, and, as a result, made some embarrassing mistakes that any reader of the book would recognize. Darrell Falk at the Biologos Foundation was apparently responsible for inviting Ayala to comment on Meyers book, and has been drawn into the debate. He published the first part of Meyers response to Ayala,...

Earlier this week, the Biologos Foundation posted part of Stephen Meyers response to a review of his book Signature in the Cell by evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala. Because Biologos decided to introduce its partial posting of Meyers response with a misleading and inaccurate preface, and because Biologos further decided to rebut part 1 of Meyers response before readers had a chance to read his entire response, we have decided to make the rest of Dr. Meyers response available on his website immediately. Just as readers were allowed to read Dr. Ayalas critique in its entirety before reading Dr. Meyers response,...

The Discovery Institute has invited Dr. Francisco Ayala to debate the thesis of the book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design with the book's author, Dr. Stephen Meyer. Those who've been following the debate between Meyer and his critics know that there has been a bit of back and forth since Ayala was invited to critique SITC on the Biologos website. Meyer has responded this week, with the first of two parts on the Biologos site. Discovery Institute would like to initiate a full-fledged, official debate between the two, and so we have already sent...

by Jeff Zweerink Twinkle, twinkle little star, My, oh my, how large you are. How’d you get to be so big? When gas pressure and magnetic fields should have prevented you from forming?Okay, so my poem doesn’t rhyme, but it does communicate two important issues regarding stars. First, astronomers [...]

Kenneth Richard SamplesHow can a Christian think about eschatology (the study of “last things”) in a careful and intellectually responsible manner?Let me offer three suggestions for believers to carefully consider when approaching the controversial theological topic of the “end times.”1. Understanding the Bible’s Apocalyptic LiteratureEvangelical theologian and eschatology specialist George Eldon Ladd notes the following: [...]

A supportive pastor asks why we teach that Gods ways are understandable. But as Dr. Jason Lisle, AiGU.S., points out, understanding Gods ways is impossible for finite minds.

Over the next few days in my homeland of Australia, atheists are converging from around the world in the city of Melbourne for what many of the organizers are calling a celebration of atheism.

Do you have a self that controls your brain, or is thought a secretion of the brain, as Darwin claimed? Do you use your brain, or does your brain operate you? Who is in charge? These are deep philosophical questions with a long history, that some people prefer to avoid, as in the common joke:What is matter? Never mind.What is mind? No matter.The answer is probably not an either-or proposition, because we know that physical changes in the brain, whether by drugs and injury, can have profound affects on the self if there is one. But there is also ample evidence that people can affect their physical brains through choice and will just as a person can order her arm to rise against the pull of gravity. Some recent findings suggest that opinions of neuroscientists (for a long time those most tending to physicalism) seem to be shifting back to belief in the existence of a determinative self. (6 reports)

Contrary to the claims of atheists, the earthquake in Haiti does not show that God does not exist or that He is indifferent to our suffering. It does show that the sin of greed and shoddy construction has had very deadly consequences.