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 […]
Pastor Dedi Saputra was sentenced to prison in July 2026 under Indonesia’s blasphemy law. (USCIRF) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A Christian pastor has been sentenced to prison for two years for violating Indonesia’s law against blasphemy and hate speech in a case that has drawn scrutiny over the speed of his arrest and trial. […]
(FOX News) — Archaeologists in Turkey believe they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery, possibly uncovering the remains of a church they believe hosted the First Council of Nicaea, one of the most pivotal events in the history of Christianity. An international team of researchers in July excavated a church complex in the ancient city of Nicaea, now within […]
In one study, the average age of girls forced to marry and convert to Islam in Pakistan was 12.8 years old, according to Jubilee Campaign. (Screenshot from Black Stone documentary) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Aneeqa Ishaq, a 16-year-old Christian girl in Lahore, Pakistan, took a job as a restaurant cashier for her […]
Sealing of Tafath church in Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria on Oct. 16, 2019. (Morning-Star News) (Morning Star News) – Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said. Christians in the 99-percent Muslim country gather […]
(WND) — After thousands of migrants flooded Spanish shores from Morocco this week, top American and international policymakers sounded the alarm on the Left’s open-border and amnesty policies. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., has attributed the migrant influx to the previous amnesty policy Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez implemented in February, when he naturalized almost a million […]
Nadeem Masih and wife Nadia Nadeem plead for recovery of daughter Amber Nadeem. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News screenshot from video) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Saturday (July 25) handed custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to the Muslim accused of abducting her, forcibly converting her to Islam […]