Faisalabad Police Chief Kamran Adil shows solidarity with Christians in Jaranwala, Pakistan on Aug. 16, 2024. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News)) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A massive crackdown on an Islamist religio-political party and a recent announcement by Pakistan’s law minister suggest authorities have resolved to make procedural changes to controversial blasphemy […]

Location of Upper Nile state, South Sudan. (Ivan25, Creative Commons) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – South Sudanese children separated from their parents in deportations from the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, have been reunited with their families in South Sudan, according to media reports. At least 71 children have been reunited with their families in […]

Al-Khoziny Islamic Traditional Boarding School in Sawahan village, East Java Province, Indonesia collapsed on Sept. 29, 2025. (Screenshot from YouTube) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A job ad by a regional Religious Affairs Office in Indonesia discriminating against non-Muslims has been modified following objections, sources said. The Oct. 10 ad by the Tarakan Regency Ministry of Religious […]

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) members on Oct. 13, 2025 march in protest of Israeli-Hamas ceasefire. (Screenshot from YouTube News18) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christians in Pakistan expressed cautious relief after a massive crackdown last week on a Muslim extremist political party that has wreaked violence on Christians and other religious minorities. The Punjab […]

Sudan border with South Sudan. (Map data © 2025 Google) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan last week deported more than 100 predominantly Christian, South Sudanese women from Khartoum in what critics say was for both religious and political reasons. At least 61 of the deported women were separated from their children, according […]

The Rev. James Audu Issa, ECWA pastor in Ekati, Kwara state, Nigeria, was found dead on Oct. 2, 2025. (ECWA church, Ekati) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani criminals in western Nigeria kidnapped and killed a Christian pastor despite receiving 5 million naira ($3,125 USD) in ransom, sources said. The Rev. James Audu […]

Zafar Bhatti with wife Nawab Bibi after his release from prison. (British Asian Christian Association) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A pastor acquitted of a false blasphemy charge after 13 years of languishing in prison tragically died two days after his release, a rights group said. Pastor Zafar Bhatti, 62-year-old founder of the […]

Pastor Praveen Pagadala was a well-known evangelist in southern India. (Morning Star News) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence the continually threatened evangelist was murdered. Pastor Praveen Pagadala’s […]

Kacheri group of Hindu temples, Dwarahat, Uttarakhand state, India. (Creative Commons) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The first Christian charged under Uttarakhand state, India’s “anti-conversion” law has become the first to be acquitted under the statute, sources said. After a four-year legal battle, Judicial Magistrate Anju (who uses only one name) of the Ramnagar Court […]

Evangelical School of Sudan in Omdurman. (Morning Star News) JUBA, Sudan (Morning Star News) – A years-long Islamist attempt to seize a Christian school in Sudan continued this month even as people displaced by war have taken refuge in the facility, sources said. An Islamic business interest sent three Muslims who forcefully entered the embattled […]