Persecution
As Haiti is uprooted by violence, church leaders treat gunshot wounds, give up homes for strangers, and rescue dignitaries.
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Read Moreverlooked by crises in Gaza and Ukraine, Sudan has now endured one year of civil war. Nearly 16,000 people have been killed, with 8.2 million fleeing from their homes—including 4 million children. Both figures are global highs for internal displacement.
The United Nations stated that the “world’s worst hunger crisis” is looming, warning that one-third of Sudan’s 49 million people suffer
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Read MoreSponsored article by TENx10, an initiative focused on helping faith matter more to the next generation.
Recent data paints a picture of a digitally connected yet lonely Gen Z. With an average of nine hours spent on their phones and an attention span of eight seconds, nearly half of U.S. teens claim almost constant internet use.
Does this mean that digital natives, or those born during the age of digital technology, are inherently incompatible with the values and community offered by traditional churches–or is there a better way to bridge the gap and authentically connect with these younger generations?
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Read MoreAn Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker.
Two knife attacks within three days – at a busy shopping centre near Bondi beach that killed six people on Saturday and at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney’s west on Monday – has shocked residents of Australia’s most populous city.
“I am doing fine, recovering very quickly … there is no need to be worried or concerned,” Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel said in an audio message posted on social media, his first public comments since the attack. “I forgive whoever has done this act … I will always pray for you and whoever sent you to do this, I forgive them as well.”
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Read MoreA man who set a downtown Regina church on fire has been sentenced to a little more than a year in jail, CJME radio has reported.
Jordan Willet, 31, was sentenced on April 9 to 378 days for intentionally or recklessly causing damage by fire or explosion to property, as well as failing to comply with a probation order.
Willet pleaded guilty to both charges.
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Read MoreRebel News is on the ground at the Lethbridge courthouse, providing independent reporting on the trials of the truckers charged by the RCMP at the Coutts blockade.
On September 16, 2022, Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos, and George Janzen were charged with Mischief over $5,000 by the RCMP, who suggested the three were ‘key participants’ of the Coutts blockade.
Alex, Marco and George could each spend a decade imprisoned for their alleged involvement in peaceful demonstrations against COVID-19 health regulations.
To learn more about how these truckers ended up in Coutts, click here to watch ‘Trucker Rebellion: The Story of the Coutts Blockade’ the documentary that Rebel News produced about the truckers who didn’t make it all the way to Ottawa, but who decided to take a stand at a small border crossing in Coutts, Alberta.
Rebel News is raising funds for their legal defence provided by The Democracy Fund and we’ve sent a news team to cover their ongoing trials at the Lethbridge courthouse in southern Alberta.
We’ll be posting all of our latest reports on the trial of the ‘Coutts Three’ right here on this page.
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Read MoreRebel News is on the ground at the Lethbridge courthouse, providing independent reporting on the trials of the truckers charged by the RCMP at the Coutts blockade.
Rebel News has covered the Coutts trucker blockade since its inception — in fact, we embedded two journalists in the blockade with the men, to document every moment of their peaceful protest. Rebel News also dispatched lawyers to the blockade to give the men legal advice in real time and to help negotiate with police.
Now that the criminal charges from the Coutts blockade are heading to court, Rebel News reporters will cover those trials, just as we’ve covered countless similar trials across Canada.
Those trials and the preliminary hearings are scheduled to take many weeks. To help cover the costs of travel, economy-class hotels in Lethbridge and other costs for our journalists please chip in a donation on this page. (Thanks!)
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Read MoreRebel News has set up a crowdfunding campaign for Chris Carbert of the Coutts Four
After meeting with Chris Carbert, one of the Coutts Four accused still in prison, Rebel News has set up a crowdfunding campaign to assist Chris with his legal bills. Preliminary hearings in his case begin this week in Lethbridge with the trial expected later this year.
Rebel News founder Ezra Levant met with Chris at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre and agreed with Chris and his family to set up a GiveSendGo crowdfund campaign. All proceeds will go to cover Chris’s legal bills, and any surplus will go to other similar litigation funded by The Democracy Fund.
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Read MorePolice in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have declared Monday’s stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated “terrorist act” while declining to publicly state the faith of the alleged attacker.
The definition means counter-terrorism investigators – a joint team comprising NSW and federal police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) – now have extraordinary powers under NSW laws to investigate the attack, the BBC reports.
They can also conduct searches to prevent any further suspected attacks.
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Read MoreTwo Palestinians have been killed in the village of Khirbet al-Tawil, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting they were shot by Israeli settlers.
The flare-up in violence follows the disappearance of a 14-year-old settler, whose body was found on Saturday.
Wesam Ahmad, head of the Al-Haq human rights group’s Center for Applied International Law, says the rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank is linked to the war on Gaza and emboldened by Israel’s sense of “impunity”.
“There’s a strong symbiotic relationship between the Israeli occupying forces and Israeli settlers working in collaboration to various levels or, at the very least, the Israeli occupying forces allowing the settlers to carry out these attacks without doing anything to prevent them,” Ahmad told Al Jazeera.
He explained that the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, has “very limited” power.
“I think it’s inherent for the international community to step in. This is a context of coloniser and colonised, and the idea that the colonised with their limited capacity can confront the coloniser in this asymmetrical power dynamic is absurd. This is where the international community needs to step up,” he added.
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