(SRN NEWS)- ) The Department of Justice is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement worships. A live streamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities […]
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(SRN NEWS)- ) The Department of Justice is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement worships. A live streamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul last Sunday, chanting “ICE out.” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon has condemned the demonstration. Posting on social media she said “A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest. It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws.”
( ) Authorities in Nigeria are now admitting that simultaneous church attacks occurred in northwestern Kaduna (kah-DOON-uh) state over the weekend. They initially dismissed the reports by multiple eyewitnesses and victims. The leading human rights group Amnesty International condemned the “desperate denial” of the attack by the police and government. Christians are being killed and abducted in large numbers in the northern parts of Nigeria by Muslim terrorist groups. Critics accuse the government of having turned a blind eye to the problem for years, even as the international outcry over the situation has grown.
( ) Having a large number of Christians in a country does not necessarily protect against persecution. A new report from International Christian Concern reveals that in the Democratic Republic of Congo “Christians represent roughly 95 percent of the nation’s population, yet they are being slaughtered at alarming rates. Much of the killing is being done by Islamist groups.” Nigeria’s Christian population is also under siege, despite representing about half of the country’s population. More than 60 percent of Mozambique is Christian but Muslim terrorists run rampant, attacking churches and abducting believers.
( ) America’s Hispanic congregations are growing. According to a poll released by LifeWay Research, a lot of new Latino-majority churches are springing up around the country and while they are small, they won’t be for long. The average Hispanic congregation starts with about 30 members, but by year eight, that number has increased to nearly 100. Half of the new churches are in the three states with the most Latino people: Texas, Florida and California. Most Hispanic people who come to the U.S. are Catholics, but large numbers of them are turning to the Evangelical Protestant tradition after being exposed to it here.