(Mission Network News) — Open Doors USA’s online presence in the Middle East is growing rapidly. Several social media projects focusing on supporting Christians in the Arab-speaking world have now culminated into a combined total of 500,000 “likes.” Each week, thousands of people are engaging on one of the social media outlets supported by Open […]
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Amid ongoing dangers, Christian leaders in Nigeria this month recalled the exemplary faith of indigenous missionaries who gave their lives in areas overrun by Islamic extremist militants. While President Muhammadu Buhari told an India-African summit this week that Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has been contained to “sporadic” attacks in […]
BEIJING (New York Times) — Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent, the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old “one child” policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children. The decision was a dramatic step away from a core Communist Party position that […]
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – On top of recent government demolitions of church buildings, suspected Muslim extremists in Sudan’s eastern city of Al Qadarif this month set fire to one used by a 500-member congregation, sources said. Leaders from the Lutheran Church of Sudan said they suspect a radical Muslim set the blaze that […]
AFRICA (Mission Network News) — Orphanages are overflowing with kids who don’t know what the word “permanent” means anymore. Ruth Olsson, a strategic partnership consultant with Bethany Christian Services, says, “Institutionalizing children is not a great plan for their future. We would say God designed the family. Man designed orphanages to respond to a crisis, […]
PUNJAB, Kasur (Breitbart) — Three Muslim men broke into the home of a deaf Christian woman in a village in the district of Kasur, Pakistan, and took turns raping her while the men of the family were at work. The incident occurred in the Ganda Singh Wala village in the Kasur district of Punjab. The […]
United Kingdom (Mission Network News) — Despite its long religious history and grandiose church buildings, there is barely a trace of the United Kingdom’s spiritual fervor of the past. In the continent that birthed the Reformation, church attendance is rapidly declining. Many teens and adults feel a sense of hopelessness and are turning to drugs, […]
A number of Shiite Muslim men and children around the world are in the midst of observing a 10-day Islamic festival in remembrance of Muhammad’s grandson—an event that involves cutting ones head with knives or spears or self-flagellating themselves with chains. Online photos captured the bloodiness of the Muslim traditions surrounding the Day of Ashura, which […]
HYDERABAD, India — A giant statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, which has an elephant head and four arms, recently came crashing down on a crowd of worshipers in India. A video of the incident was uploaded to YouTube, showing a large group of people gathering to see the idol, who begin screaming moments later at […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda angry at a Christian for leaving Islam killed his wife on Monday (Oct. 19), a month after his brother was killed for the same reason, sources said. Mamwikomba Mwanika, mother of three adult children and five others ranging in age from 17 to 9, died en […]