Charisma Magazine

According to Bloomberg, James Nsaba Buturo, Uganda's minister of ethics and integrity, said lawmakers plan to drop the controversial penalties in a revised version of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 that is to be presented to Parliament in two weeks.

Photo: A revised anti-homosexuality may be presented in Uganda's Parliament (shown) later this month.

Chinese authorities have quietly sentenced Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) to 15 years in prison on the apparently contrived charge of "providing state secrets to overseas organizations," according to China Aid Association (CAA).

The charge against the 36-year-old house church leader, held for more than two years at Kashgar Detention Center in China's troubled Xinjiang region, was apparently based on interviews he granted to media outside of China, according to his lawyer, Li Dunyong.

(In this image released by China Aid Association, Alimujiang Yimiti is shown with his wife, Gulinuer, and one of the couple's two sons.)

Updated: In a statement released Thursday, Saddleback pastor Rick Warren denounced a Ugandan bill that would make homosexual behavior punishable by death in some cases.

He encouraged Ugandan pastors to speak out against the proposed measure, calling it "unjust, extreme and un-Christian toward homosexuals." (See video below.)

(Photo: Uganda Parliament)

In a 54-45 vote Tuesday, the Senate rejected an amendment Nelson introduced that would have prevented women who used government subsidies to purchase health insurance from buying into a plan that included abortion coverage.

A coalition of conservative Christian groups is seeking to block the confirmation of Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

In a letter drafted by the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), the groups claim President Obama's nominee would use her position to infringe on religious liberty. They urged the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to reject Feldblum's confirmation during a hearing expected to take place Thursday.

(Photo: Chai Feldblum)