Pakistan (Mission Network News) — You’ve heard this threat before: “Convert, leave or die.” It’s been the hallmark of Islamist extremist groups connected to ISIS as they march through the Middle East. However, this latest threat comes out of Pakistan, which has noted a growing base of ISIS fighters. Although the group issuing the decree hasn’t […]
LONDON — Just months after an advertisement featuring the Lord’s Prayer was rejected for a run in theaters throughout the United Kingdom, buses in the nation are set to bear a banner declaring “glory to Allah” for a Ramadan advertising campaign aimed at portraying Islam in a more positive light. The advertisement, which reads, “Gather […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan today released one of two church leaders jailed since December, sources said. Telahoon Nogose Kassa, head of discipleship at the embattled Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, was released after Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested him without charges on Dec. 13, 2015, according to church members. “Finally, […]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The attorney general of Northern Ireland testified in court on Tuesday in favor of a Christian identified bakery that was fined last year for alleged discrimination for declining to print the phrase “support gay marriage” on a cake. “I say very clearly, if it was a case where Mr. Lee had been […]
(Mission Network News) — As violence in the Middle East rages on, refugees are flooding into Europe. Helen Williams of World Missionary Press says that Christians in Western Europe want to help. And so, they’ve shared the one thing that is most precious to them: the Gospel. Many of them have asked for assistance. “World […]
A U.S. missionary who was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in North Korea, and served in a labor camp for two years before ultimately being freed, is speaking out about his experience and how his missionary work was deemed a “threat” to the atheist government. “They (the prosecutors) said, ‘You attempted to overthrow the government through prayer […]
(International Business Times) — Over 50 mass graves have been found so far in different areas of Iraq formerly controlled by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, BBC reported Friday, citing a United Nations envoy. Jan Kubis, U.N. special representative in its assistance mission for Iraq, told the U.N. Security Council that the […]
LONDON — Residents of London have elected the city’s first ever Muslim mayor, choosing to elect the Labor Party’s Sadiq Khan over the Conservative Party’s Zac Goldsmith 56 to 43 percent. Goldsmith had been characterized as being “negative” and “dirty” for alleging that Khan had ties to Islamic terrorists. Khan accused Goldsmith of trying to […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in India initially declined to take action after Hindu extremists tortured one Christian and severely beat another, sources said. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Hindu extremists in Tewardih, Varanasi who have long insisted that a 30-year-old convert from Hinduism, Joginder Gold, stop worshiping Christ took him to […]
(Reuters) — China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the United States after a U.S. government commission said Chinese violations of religious freedom last year remained “severe”, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan U.S. federal government body, said in a report this week that there were […]