Pastor Thongkham Philavanh is survived by his wife and two children. (Facebook) HONG KONG (Morning Star News) – Pastor Thongkham Philavanh was feeding his chickens and ducks behind his house in Vanghay village, northwestern Laos, on Monday (July 22) when two men on motorcycles, faces covered, arrived. After a brief exchange, one of the gunmen fired […]

Attack on house church members in Nawada, Dehradun District, Uttarakhand state, India on July 14, 2024. (Morning Star News screenshot from YouTube) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Members of a house church in northern India can no longer meet for worship after a mob of about 150 Hindu extremists attacked them on July 14, sources […]

From Dawn News broadcast on reversal of ban on passports for Pakistanis fleeing the country. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News screenshot) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistani Christians who have fled the country due to persecution were relieved to hear the government has reversed its decision to stop issuing or renewing passports to […]

Corpses of Christians slain in Mbacher village, Benue state, Nigeria on July 19, 2024. (Joseph Achiv for Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani attackers killed 18 Christians in a late-night assault on Friday (July 19) in central Nigeria, area residents said. The assailants invaded Mbacher village, a predominantly […]

Nouman Masih was arrested on July 1, 2019. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan despite lack of evidence has demonstrated his faith by excelling academically even in prison, sources said. Nouman Masih, 24, recently passed his high school board examination […]

Burial of Nilesh Kumar in Satpura village, Arwal District in Bihar state, India on July 8, 2024. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sushil Kumar and his wife rose at 3 a.m. on July 8 in their village in northern India as always to pray. They came out of their house 90 […]

Location of Madhya Pradesh state in India. (Filpro, Creative Commons) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Worship services at a church in a village in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been suspended since Hindu extremists attacked the congregation on June 1, sources said. The mob of about 20 villagers led by members of the Hindu […]

Protest against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England in November 2014. (Mtaylor848, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) again has recommended that the State Department designate Pakistan as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC), citing the country’s blasphemy laws as a prime […]

Ampel Mosque in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Consigliere Ivan, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, INDONESIA (Morning Star News) – Local officials in Indonesia on Sunday (June 30) stopped a wedding ceremony and banned the church from further worship meetings at the site, sources said. In Mergosari, Tarik District, Sidoarjo Regency of Java island, village head Eko Budi Santoso halted the […]

Christians at burial of Bindu Sodi in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state, India, June 26, 2024. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A tribal religion villager in India killed his 32-year-old niece with axe blows and stones last week, claiming she and her relatives had no right to ancestral farmland because they had become […]