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A 38-year-old Pentecostal minister named Thankgod Opemipo Matthew Yeye survived a 3,500-mile Atlantic crossing hidden above the rudder of a cargo ship. He and three other Nigerian stowaways ran out of food after 10 days and survived four more on seawater alone before being rescued and detained by Brazilian authorities. Yeye said he was forced to leave Nigeria because his farm was destroyed by floods, leaving him and his family homeless. More than 50,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed by Islamic militants since 2009. Yeye has applied for asylum in Brazil.
A jury of five women and two men found Andre Thomas, a 22-year-old laborer, guilty of murdering two American missionaries. He and his cousin Dwight Henry killed Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols, both with Pennsylvania-based Teams for Medical Missions, in 2016. Henry previously pleaded guilty, telling police in interrogation that they killed the men because of the stories their grandfather used to tell them about the horrible things white people did. Henry was sentenced to life in prison. Thomas will be sentenced in October.
Congressional reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) has been imperiled by pro-life opposition. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Heritage Action, and the Family Research Council say the program is a “slush fund” for abortion providers because it pays contractors to deliver the antiretroviral drugs necessary for fighting HIV/AIDS and some of those contractors also provide abortions. Pro-life groups who have worked with PEPFAR say it is a proven program—saving as many as 25 million lives in the past 20 years—and does not, in fact, fund abortions.
The Methodist Church in Kenya elected Isaiah Deye as presiding bishop three months after Joseph Ntombura was removed ...