Author: Shalem John
When polled, a majority of men in America check the pro-life box. But when two blue lines appear on a pregnancy test, many remain reluctant to voice those views. “It’s like they don’t want to say the wrong thing and they don’t take a hard stance out loud,” said Amy Ford, cofounder and president of Embrace Grace, a nonprofit that equips churches to minister to expectant mothers. Fifty four percent of men identified as pro-life, compared to just 32 percent of women, in a recent Gallup poll. In practice, those who work in the pro-life movement say many men are…
Two Romanian men claim a church in California is responsible for the fact that they were repeatedly raped as children in orphanages in the Eastern European country. They say Harvest Christian Fellowship and its leaders, including evangelist and Calvary Chapel pastor Greg Laurie, should have known what was happening and stopped it. Marian Barbu and Mihai-Constantin Petcu are plaintiffs in two lawsuits filed in federal court in California this week. They allege negligence and seek damages from Laurie and Harvest Christian Fellowship, who supported the Romanian ministries, along with former pastors Richard Schutte and Paul Havsgaard. Their suits do not…
Jennipher Nanjala’s third pregnancy turned dangerous this spring when her water broke, spilling out in a greenish color, but she didn’t feel labor pains. The 42-year-old traveled more than 20 miles by public transit to St. Mary’s Mission Hospital—the country’s oldest missionary hospital, founded in 1932—in Mumias, Kakamega County, in western Kenya. A clerk checked Nanjala’s national identification card to see if she had registered under the new Social Health Authority (SHA) insurance fund. She had, so the hospital cleared her to start treatment without paying cash upfront. Then the doctors examined her. Nanjala’s blood pressure was critically high. “When…