- - Evangelicals are on the rise in France. A surprise to many.
From a postwar population of about 50,000, French evangelicals are now estimated to number 450,000 to 500,000. According to the Evangelical Federation of France, the number of churches has risen from 800 in 1970 to more than 2200 today. . . [more . .]
- - Churck Colson: "Atheists who become believers: the confounding attraction of the Christian worldview."
A strong empirical case can be made to show that Christianity is the only rational explanation of life. . . the four basic questions that most people ask about life: Where did I come from? What's my purpose? Why is there sin and suffering? Is redemption possible? Then, on the other side of the matrix, we list the various philosophies and prominent world religions. By examining how each view answers the four questions, we can determine which worldviews conform to the way things really are. This is the correspondence theory of truth—a thoroughly rational test. Students quickly see that only Christianity teaches that humans are created in the image of God, thus protecting their dignity. [more . .]
- Daily Mail: Britain is the abortion capital of Europe.
It has overtaken France - which has a larger population - to become the abortion capital of the continent. The rising rate has been pushed up by abortions among teenage girls, which increased by nearly a third over the past decade. [more . .]