EU Ambassador to Pakistan Raimundas Karoblis. (Screenshot from Voicepk.net podcast) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s continued access to a lucrative European Union trade preference could be jeopardized if Islamabad fails to demonstrate meaningful progress in protecting human rights, including the rights of religious minorities, the EU ambassador to Pakistan warned. Raimundas Karoblis […]
Kibirige Abumusa after sons beat him on Aug. 9, 2026 for accepting Christ in Uganda. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 52-year-old Christian in eastern Uganda was recovering from injuries after his Muslim sons attacked him for leaving Islam, sources said. In Nakalama village, Iganga Town Council, Kibirige Abumusa returned home on […]
Maria Shahbaz’s parents Shahbaz Masih and Erum Shahbaz with attorney Saqib Jillani and rights activist Safdar Chaudhry at Federal Constitutional Court building. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christian leaders and attorneys this week welcomed a Lahore High Court (LHC) ruling that says living in a marital relationship with […]
Blasphemy laws were among oppressive measures opposed in protest in Faisalabad, Pakistan on National Minorities Day on Aug. 11, 2026. (Minorities Alliance Pakistan) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – One Christian in Pakistan was arrested and charged with blasphemy on Saturday (Aug. 29) and another faced the same accusation on Aug. 11 under laws […]
Minorities Alliance Pakistan’s Akmal Bhatti speaks alongside other rights advocates and Nadia Nadeem at press conference on Aug. 29, 2026. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christian rights advocates on Saturday (Aug. 29) condemned a Pakistani court’s decision to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim […]
Neha Faqir (R) in Islamic dress on way to court in Lahore, Pakistan. (CSI) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Members of the U.S. Congress have urged the Pakistani government to take steps to protect an 18-year-old Christian woman who her family says was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. In an Aug. 20 […]
Al-Akbar National Mosque in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. (Lasthib, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim residents of a village in East Java Province, Indonesia have pressured officials into halting a church’s use of its building, claiming worship services there could cause social tension, sources said. The church held worship services in a […]
Location of Afmadow District in Somalia. (SandMan25, Creative Commons) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Somalia on Saturday (Aug. 15) beat a mother of eight children unconscious after learning she had converted from Islam to Christianity, sources said. A former member of an underground Christian fellowship who returned to Islam, Fatuma Osman, directed […]
Shahzad Masih and wife Shama Bibi were burned alive in 2014 after being attacked by a Muslim mob over a false blasphemy accusation. (Morning Star News photo courtesy of family) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday (Aug. 13) provided details on the July 9 acquittal of three Muslims sentenced […]
Burial service for Christian youth leader Filibus Usman Kuje on Aug. 10, 2026 in Amaha village, Kokona County, Nasarawa state, Nigeria. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen have killed 16 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria since Aug. 2, in addition to slaughters in two other states, sources […]
