NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over their land, area church leaders said. In Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namudumba District, Muslims erected a boundary fence with poles and barbed […]

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The two Christians, A. Rethinakumar and C. Nova of Jesus Redeems Ministry, were traveling by motorcycle in Thomas Nagar on Nov. 3 at about 2:30 […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts. The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015 document reviewed by Reuters, says taking organs from a living captive to save […]

(New York Times) — Vonette Z. Bright, who founded Campus Crusade for Christ with her husband and built it into a global evangelical organization, died on Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. She was 89. Her death, from complications of leukemia, was announced by Campus Crusade, which she and her husband, William R. Bright, founded in 1951 […]

TEHRAN, Iran (BosNewsLife) — Iran has freed evangelical pastor Farshid Fathi after he spent five years in prison for his faith, fellow Christian workers said early Tuesday, December 22. “We are overjoyed and celebrating!” about Monday’s release, added David Yeghnazar, executive director of Christian mission group Elam Ministries. His group, founded by Iranian church leaders, […]

TOMBALL, Texas (Yahoo News) — A father who was released from jail after facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon says his actions were committed purely out of love. George Pickering’s son had a history of seizures when he suffered a massive stroke in January and was put on life support at Tomball […]

MANDERA, Kenya (CNN) — Their M.O. is a tried and terrifying one: Launch a raid, single out Christians, and then spray them with bullets. But when Al-Shabaab militants ambushed a bus Monday, things didn’t go according to plan. A group of Kenyan Muslims shielded the Christian passengers and told the attackers they were prepared to […]

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (CBC) — A prayer service was held Sunday night aimed at keeping spirits high for friends and family of the Canadian minister facing a life sentence in a North Korean jail. ​ Hyeon Soo Lim, who is in his early 60s, is pastor of the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga, Ont. He was […]

Moldova (Mission Network News) — The fall of the Soviet Union had drastic effects on Moldova. The country was plunged into poverty and the once middle-class country became the poorest country in Europe. The ones who received the most slack from the depression were children. But now, FARMS International hopes to give them a sense […]

JINAN, Shandong (China Aid)— Five college students in China’s eastern Shandong face expulsion after they held a private prayer meeting on Tuesday. Around noon at Shandong Yingcai College, someone used a cell phone to photograph the five students, Li Binbin, Zhang Yaqi, Ni Wangjie, Chen Huiyun, and Chen Ping, while they prayed and turned the […]