NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Twice in the past two weeks, Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda have tried to kill a former sheikh known throughout the region for his Christian activities, the former Islamic teacher told Morning Star News. Hassan Muwanguzi, an evangelist in Budaka District whose conversion and ministry success led hard-line Muslims […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A House committee in Texas has approved a bill proposed by a professing Christian who seeks to legalize the recreational use of marijuana statewide. Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, proposed HB 2165 earlier this year to do away with criminal penalties for the use of pot in Texas, striking any language in the […]
A jihadist trainer for the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq in Syria, recently requested a Bible from a taxi driver, explaining that he is “sick of the killing.” An Operation Mobilization missionary to the Middle East who simply identified himself as Julian relayed the story on a […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Democratic governor of Kentucky has ordered a county clerk to issue “marriage” licenses to same-sex pairs or resign from his position. Gov. Steve Beshear, whose father and grandfather were reportedly both ministers and who identifies as a Baptist, told Casey County clerk Casey Davis on Thursday those were his two choices. […]
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — An atheist organization has filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida county over its policy banning non-religious persons from delivering the invocation at the start of commission meetings. “To deny anyone the right to offer an invocation at this meeting and segregate them into a public comment period, which is what […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A lawmaker in Oklahoma has proposed a bill that would eliminate a section of the state Constitution that was cited by the state Supreme Court in preventing a Ten Commandments monument from remaining at the capitol grounds. State Rep. John Paul Jordan, R-Yukon, submitted House Joint Resolution 1036 on Monday, which […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Christian institutions have filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to challenge a requirement surrounding what has been dubbed as the Obamacare abortion pill mandate. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby before the high court last year, filed the […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A congregation in this central Nigerian city continued worshiping on July 12 after a security man found and tossed over a fence a bomb before it exploded, the pastor said. Authorities later discovered a second bomb on the church premises and disposed of it, said Ezekiel Omidiji, senior pastor […]
WASHINGTON — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) told reporters on Thursday that the department thwarted a number of ISIS-inspired terror plots likely scheduled for July 4 from “coast to coast.” “I do believe our work disrupted efforts to kill people, likely in connection with July 4,” James Comey stated as he […]
GRESHAM, Ore. — The owners of a Christian bakery in Oregon who were ordered to pay $135,000 in damages to two lesbians who claimed that they suffered emotionally after they were told that the bakery could not make a cake for their ceremony will be seeking a stay of the order as they plan to […]