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  • Ottawa Shooting Leaves Soldier and Gunman Dead

    On Wednesday morning in Ottawa, a lone gunman took the life of a soldier and stormed Parliament Hill. The suspect, identified as Michael Zehef-Bibeau (32), was killed while inside Canada's Parliament Hill. It is uncertain if the gunman acted alone.
  • JAMA inauguration

    JAMA Inaugurates Pastor Ezra Kang as New President

    Pastor Ezra Kang was inaugurated as the second president of Jesus Awakening Movement for America (JAMA) after John C. Kim, the founder of JAMA and former president. Kang, who had previously been on the board of directors before being appointed as president, has been taking on the practical role o…

  • Cameraman Ashoka Mukpo Declared Free of Ebola

    Cameraman Ashoka Mukpo has tested negative for Ebola after fighting the disease for almost a month. The freelancer was working for NBC in Liberia when infected with the virus.

  • Bulgarian Man Shows Signs of Recovery from Paralysis after Innovative Treatment Procedure

    Darek Fidyka, a Bulgarian who had been paralyzed from his chest down for almost two years due to a spinal cord injury, has been recovering feeling in his legs, reports said Tuesday. He is now able to walk with the help of a walking frame. Fidyka, 40, was given a procedure that has never been tried b…
  • Hitching Post Chapel

    Christian Wedding Chapel Owners File Lawsuit to Defend Religious Freedom

    Donald and Evelyn Knapp, Christian ministers who own a wedding chapel in Idaho, were threatened with a jail sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to host a same-sex wedding. The couple filed a lawsuit on Friday against the city of Coeur D’Alene on the basis that it violates their First Amendment r…

  • Gang Makes Sandwiches for Hungry School Children

    A gang in New Zealand has received support from locals for their acts of compassion. The Tribal Huks, a gang in the Waikato region in northern New Zealand, have been making over 500 sandwiches for hungry school children daily for the past two and a half years.

  • North Korea Releases One of Three American Detainees

    Jeffrey Fowle, a 56-year-old American who had been detained by the North Korean government since May, has been released, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Tuesday. Fowle had been at North Korea since late April on a tourist visa, but was arrested in May while trying to leave the country after a…

  • North Koreans Persecuted for Owning a Bible or Meeting with Pastors

    “One woman who left her Bible at home was arrested and dragged to a threshing ground, and was publicly executed by a firing squad. When asked, ‘Why was she executed?’ they replied, ‘Because she kept a Bible.’ Her head, heart, and legs were tied up and she was shot to death.” “ *** esca…
  • Hong Kong Protests

    First Talk Between Hong Kong Demonstrators and Government To Take Place

    Yonhap News reported that after 24 days of protest, the government of Hong Kong and the protestors will be officially meeting for the first time.
  • DMZ Patrol

    North and South Korean Soldiers Clash at DMZ

    On the 19th it is reported that North and South Korean soldiers clashed in a fire fight at the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) near the city of Paju, South Korea. The exchange lasted approximately 10 minutes. While there were no casualties on either side, military experts expressed that the conflict…

  • Ukraine Government Uses Cluster Munitions that Can Amount to War Crimes

    On Monday, the Human Rights Watched released an article describing the illegal use of cluster munitions by the Ukrainian military.

  • 43 Students Still Missing Despite Discovery of Mass Graves

    Last month, a total of 43 male students went missing in the city of Iguala. The college students were part of a rural teaching college in the southern state of Guerrero in Mexico and were attacked by local policemen and drug cartel Guerreros Unidos on September 26. Their bodies have yet to be found.
  • Alex Liu

    Faith Seminar Discusses the Relationship between a Christian's Identity and Work

    How does a Christian’s identity relate to his or her work? RE:NEW, a non-profit youth and young adult ministry, held a seminar on October 17 at the Evangelical Free Church of Walnut regarding that very question. Alex Liu, a former businessman who is now preparing to be a pastor and studying at Tal…
  • Holiness Forum

    How Bonhoeffer's Ideas on Peace Can Help to Pursue and Maintain Peace in East Asia

    How can Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s school of thought be applied to the issue of peace in East Asia? In the 29th ‘Holiness Forum,’ Suk-Sung Yoo, the general superintendent of Seoul Theological University, said that after considering Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on peace in general, they can be applied to…
  • Japanese Air Defense Force

    Japanese Prime Minister Expresses Strong Desire for Amendment

    Japan’s Nihon Gei-Jai Newspaper reported that Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan has expressed a strong desire to amend his country’s current constitution into what he termed an “independent” or “autonomous” constitution that is written and signed and legalized by Japanese leaders a…
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