Latin America (Mission Network News) — The violence in Latin America has intensified over the years with the rising spans of gangs, drug lords, and human trafficking. A recent report from the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences showed Brazil was in 7th place worldwide for the […]

Guatemala (Mission Network News) — Though Christianity in Guatemala has spread, there is still work to be done and lives to be changed, which is why Family Christian recently went on a week-long mission trip to Chichicastenango, Guatemala. Family Christian Manager-in-training, Stetson Harper, explains the work was centered around helping orphans and widows. In order […]

(BBC) — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says he will set up a new special prison for violent extremist offenders. The facility would prevent jihadists from spreading their extremist ideology to the rest of society, he said. The country’s anti-terror law allows security forces to detain people suspected of terrorist activities for a long period without […]

FAISALABAD, Pakistan (Express Tribune) — An inquiry committee has been formed by the district administration of Faislabad to probe allegations of employment discrimination by a Christian waterman who says his school headmistress is forcing him to work as a sweeper because of his religion. Qaisar Jahan, a waterman at Government MC Girls’ High School in Partap […]

Ukraine (Mission Network News) — The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has been the reason for an increasing number of broken families and orphaned children. Backyards have been turned into war zones. More than 8,000 have been killed since it’s start in 2013 and 2 million more have fled their homes in eastern Ukraine. Suffice it […]

(Open Doors) — Vietnam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities. Each has its unique language and culture, but such diversity has often presented challenges for the government leaders, whose Communist ideals are averse to individuality, private ownership and religion. The Kinh group is the largest, making up about 86 percent of the country’s […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian of Somali descent in Kenya is unable to see or eat after Muslim relatives beat him unconscious on Sunday (Feb. 7) outside Nairobi, the young man said from his hospital bed. The relatives indicated to 26-year-old Hassan (last name withheld for security reasons) that they ambushed him because […]

GUANGDONG, China (China Aid) — More than 100 personnel from multiple government departments raided a Christian care center in China’s southern Guangdong province on Thursday, seized 15 staff members and patients, including an infant, and relocated them to another shelter. Under the pretense of conducting a medical check-up, authorities forced their way into a Huizhou […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An imam who threatened a convert from Islam in eastern Uganda has been arrested in connection with the killing of the 28-year-old Christian, sources said. Laurence Maiso’s body was found at his house, his head in a pool of blood, on Jan. 27 at around 5 p.m. in Numuseru village, […]

India (Mission Network News) — There’s a saying that goes, “Good, better, best. Never let it rest, until your good is better and your better best.” It’s possible that this quote might just be Audio Scripture Ministries’ (ASM) motto when it comes to audio Bibles. Last year was a pretty good one in India for […]