JAKARTA (Reuters) — Indonesia blamed Islamic State for an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of Jakarta on Thursday that brought the radical group’s violence to the world’s most populous Muslim country for the first time. Just seven people were killed despite multiple blasts and a gunfight, and five of them were […]

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Unknown “thugs” who wrote a jihadist slogan on a church building in the center of this city on the Algerian coast on Thursday night (Jan. 7) looted and damaged the property, sources said. The assailants vandalized or stole furniture, worship items and money worth about US$8,000 from the Light (Tafat) […]

(Mission Network News) — Frontiers is using a unique tool to reach thousands of Muslims: social media. In 2011, when the Arab Spring sprung up, many Muslims began questioning their faith. Sure enough, just as social media was a “catalytic factor in the Arab Spring,” it was also the boat these questions rode. Now, Frontiers […]

BEIRUT (Associated Press) — An Islamic State fighter shot and killed his own mother before onlookers at a public square in the Syrian city of Raqqa after he was told that she was not a true believer, activists reported Friday, the latest in ISIL’s brutal public killings over the past two years in the de facto […]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) — A gunman claiming to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer in an ambush on his patrol car, the city’s police commissioner said on Friday. Edward Archer of Philadelphia approached Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, shortly before midnight and fired 11 rounds, three of which […]

CHIAPAS, Mexico (Christian Today) — Armed villagers raided and destroyed the homes of Protestants in Leyva Velazques village, Chiapas, Mexico on Jan. 4 in the latest example of religious persecution in the country, according to a human rights organization. Entrances into the village were blocked by locals forcing the Protestants to flee to the nearby […]

Turkey (Mission Network News) — In its first video for the 2016 year, AMG International opened up about its ministry in Turkey. AMG has been using media evangelism to share the Gospel with Muslims in Turkey for a couple of decades. Turkey is home to 80 million people, but only around 5,000 have come to […]

(NPR) — The masked militant who acted as the spokesman for ISIS in a new propaganda video is believed to be Siddhartha Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, according to U.S. law enforcement sources who were briefed by U.K. officials. Authorities suspect that he is a British Muslim convert from London who once touted rentals […]

Kenya (Mission Network News) — New beginnings and opportunities show up all around the world. They hold the promise of change and carry the potential to improve lives. Trans World Radio’s (TWR) prison ministry opportunity is one of them. Prisoners at Mayani Prison, a maximum security facility in Kenya, have asked TWR Kenya to help […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An attack on a bus and a truck in Kenya by Islamic extremists from Somalia’s Al Shabaab insurgency took two Christian lives in December. In the attack on a bus with more than 100 passengers in Kenya’s northeast on Dec. 21, the Al Shabaab rebels tried to separate Christians from […]