(World Watch Monitor) — In what might be a first-ever, a Pakistani lower court in mid-January acquitted a Christian of blasphemy after a three-year trial for lack of evidence against him. However, before his arrest on the false charge, Pervaiz Masih’s wife was brutally tortured by the police as they sought to find out where […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim policemen on Saturday, Jan. 19 beat and arrested a Christian man on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya in retaliation for refusing to recant Christianity, his relatives said. Accompanied by two Muslims of Somali descent who had attacked him previously, the policemen arrived at the home where Hassan (surname […]
Malaysia (Mission Network News) – In February 2017, there was a dramatic story coming out of Malaysia: a military-precision kidnapping of Pastor Raymond Koh. The kidnap was caught on CCTV and shocked the nation. It prompted an urgent cry to find Pastor Koh before something happened to him. For a couple days, the headlines were […]
(The Christian Institute) — A new study by University College London (UCL) confirms that children who experience family breakup are more likely to develop emotional and behavioral problems than those living with both parents. In 2009, the University of London (UoL) found that “evidence indicates that younger children are at greater risk of adverse outcomes, […]
(The Christian Institute) — A young man from Germany who, as an unborn baby, survived an abortion attempt in 1997 has died at age 21. Medics assumed that Tim Guido would not survive premature labor and that the usual lethal drug injection would be unnecessary. His adoptive family say that his 21 years were “full […]
(Bitter Winter) — In China, Communist Party members have always been prohibited from holding religious beliefs. Last August, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities incorporated this conventional principle into the newly revised “Disciplinary Regulations of the Chinese Communist Party,” increasing the level of punishment for party members with religious belief or sympathies. To promote these […]
(Morning Star News) – Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian now faces death threats in Egypt. Unknown Muslims in Cairo began threatening him for his faith in Christ last year, 40-year-old Al Hadi Izzalden Shareef Osman said. In a country […]
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus on Jan. 9 tore down a church building in southern India because it was built on the west side of a village, which they said violated Hindu principles of placement and positioning, sources said. The Vastu Shastra architectural and planning principles, a Hindu version of Feng Shui, were said to oppose […]
(The Christian Institute) — Doctors and nurses across the Republic of Ireland are refusing to participate in abortions following the recent change in the law. More than half of the country’s 19 maternity units are not currently providing abortions. … Dr. Andrew O’Regan, a practitioner in County Kerry who objects to the law, said that […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A watchdog organization that releases a report each year on the global persecution of Christians has again named North Korea as the most dangerous place to live as a Christian—for the 18th year in a row, followed by Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Pakistan. Open Doors USA released its “World Watch List” […]