NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists have vandalized his shop, threatened to kill him, attacked his wife and daughter, forced him to bow to Hindu idols and broken his hand, but a pastor in northern India is holding fast to Christ. “The best thing that has happened to me is Jesus,” the 55-year-old pastor, […]

Mexico (Mission Network News) — God’s Word in audio is proving to be an effective missionary, pastor, and teacher in villages formerly resistant to the Gospel. What follows is a blog post from Jim Loker, Executive Director of Audio Scripture Ministries, on a project in Mexico: “What a joy it is to see evidence of Jesus’ […]

ISLAMABAD (CBS News) – A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday has killed 65 people and wounded 300, a health official said. Many of the injured are in a critical condition, Salman Rafiq, a health adviser to the chief minister of Punjab province said. The explosion took […]

(Associated Press) — Thousands of Muslims rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to denounce a court petition seeking to remove Islam as the country’s official state religion. About 3,000 Muslims protested outside the national mosque in Dhaka against the petition, filed by a group of prominent citizens, which is to be taken up by the […]

(Christian Concern) — A law that would allow ‘death on demand’ is to be put before legislators in Belgium. Already the country with the world’s most permissive euthanasia policy, it is now to consider the introduction of a law which would stop doctors from denying euthanasia requests from patients. The law was proposed by the […]

BUDAKA, Uganda (Morning Star News) — Threats from hard-line Muslims and the rape of her 13-year-old daughter forced a Christian mother and her five children to flee their village in eastern Uganda last week, sources said. Amina Napiya, a 42-year-old widow, fled her home in Nakajete village, Budaka Town Council, on Wednesday (March 16). Budaka […]

  BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, according to public broadcaster VRT, triggering security alerts across Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before […]

(Mission Network News) — Bible translation in Muslim-dominant areas is risky. Mix that occupation with animosity aimed at Muslim-Background Believers and what you get is a volatile and often explosive reaction. That’s proven true for Wycliffe Associates. President/Chief Executive Officer Bruce Smith confirms the deaths of four national translators (first generation Christians) recently in a […]

BRUSSELS (Associated Press) — The top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks told investigators after he was captured that he was planning new operations from Brussels and possibly had access to several weapons, Belgium’s foreign minister said Sunday. Salah Abdeslam had claimed that “he was ready to restart something from Brussels, and it’s maybe the […]

YANGON, Myanmar (Myanmar Times) — Buddhist nationalists have applied for permission to hold a protest in Yangon against the appointment of Henry Van Thio, an ethnic Chin and a Christian, as vice president. The nomination of the hitherto unknown National League for Democracy MP came as a surprise to most last week, but the decision […]