(Article18) — Sixty-five-year-old Iranian Christian convert Ismaeil Maghrebinejad has had his three-year jail sentence for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” overturned on appeal. Ismaeil was informed of the verdict yesterday by his lawyer, Farshid Roofoogaran. In the verdict, dated 5 July, the judge at the 17th Branch of the appeal court in Shiraz, Jamshid Kashkouli, accepted […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Maoists in Maharashtra state killed a church pastor on Friday (July 10), the fourth death of a Christian for their faith in India since late May, sources said. In Bhatpar village, Gadchiroli District in the western peninsular state, pastor Munshi Devu Tado was leading a worship service on his property […]
(Voice of the Martyrs) — A teenager and his younger brother were kicked out of their home recently for attending church. Chan and Huang were in a church service outside Vientiane on May 24 when their father burst in and began swearing at them. He told them to stop worshiping and go home. Members of […]
(Voice of the Martyrs) — A former Orthodox Jew who came to faith in Jesus Christ is now homeless and has little hope of finding work. After meeting a Christian worker nine years ago, Noa gradually came to understand and believe the Gospel, and recently, he placed his faith in Jesus as Savior. His decision, […]
(Every Home for Christ) — The world needs some hope right now. … The Gospel is more important and more impactful than anything else we could offer. Only the Gospel has the power to change a person’s heart, and changed hearts change the world. From two different parts of the globe, EHC teams bring you examples […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims in Isiolo, Kenya last month beat unconscious a 21-year-old Christian woman, a member of a family from Somalia that fled persecution in Nairobi in 2019, sources said. In the June 4 attack on Fozia (surname withheld), seven assailants also broke two teeth of her 19-year-old sister, Asha, and also […]
(International Christian Concern) – Velma Awour welcomed her bouncing baby boy, Rowen, on June 26. Rowen’s father, Kevin, was very excited to meet his new baby. Since October 2019, Kevin and Velma worked hard to prepare their home for the addition of their new baby boy into their family of four. Then, in March, all […]
(Evangelical Focus) — The gender field will soon no longer appear in the identification cards (IDs) of citizens, the government of the Netherlands has announced. Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven — who is also in charge of emancipation issues — said identifying the gender in ID cards is “unnecessary” and hurts people who identify as […]
(Article18) — A 46-year-old Christian woman has been named as another of those arrested during a series of raids on the homes of Christians last week by intelligence agents belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Malihe Nazari, who is married with two sons aged 22 and 15, was arrested at her home in the Sadeghiyeh district […]
(The Christian Institute) — One of the first couples to be married in England following the easing of lockdown restrictions on July 4 told the BBC why their Christian faith made the ceremony so important. Phil Hobbs and Beth Johnson had originally planned to be married three months ago. They were finally able to […]