(BBC) — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says he will set up a new special prison for violent extremist offenders. The facility would prevent jihadists from spreading their extremist ideology to the rest of society, he said. The country’s anti-terror law allows security forces to detain people suspected of terrorist activities for a long period without […]
NIGERIA — A two-year old boy who was abandoned by his family after being accused of being a witch was recently rescued from death by a Danish aid worker, and online photos of the child’s plight have prompted nearly $150,000 dollars in donations toward his medical fees. The child, who has now been named Hope, […]
FAISALABAD, Pakistan (Express Tribune) — An inquiry committee has been formed by the district administration of Faislabad to probe allegations of employment discrimination by a Christian waterman who says his school headmistress is forcing him to work as a sweeper because of his religion. Qaisar Jahan, a waterman at Government MC Girls’ High School in Partap […]
ROME — Roman Catholic leader Jorge Bergoglio, also known as Pope Francis, recently nominated over 1,000 priests to be “super confessors” and forgive sins that only top level officials would normally claim authority to forgive. As the Vatican has declared 2016 as being the “Jubilee Year of Mercy,” the pontiff selected 1,142 priests that he dubbed “missionaries of […]
Ukraine (Mission Network News) — The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has been the reason for an increasing number of broken families and orphaned children. Backyards have been turned into war zones. More than 8,000 have been killed since it’s start in 2013 and 2 million more have fled their homes in eastern Ukraine. Suffice it […]
A new video released by the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, shows the terror organization using a four-year-old British boy to help execute prisoners. The child has been identified as Isa Dare, and is being dubbed by some as “Jihadi Junior.” In the video footage, […]
(Open Doors) — Vietnam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities. Each has its unique language and culture, but such diversity has often presented challenges for the government leaders, whose Communist ideals are averse to individuality, private ownership and religion. The Kinh group is the largest, making up about 86 percent of the country’s […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian of Somali descent in Kenya is unable to see or eat after Muslim relatives beat him unconscious on Sunday (Feb. 7) outside Nairobi, the young man said from his hospital bed. The relatives indicated to 26-year-old Hassan (last name withheld for security reasons) that they ambushed him because […]
GUANGDONG, China (China Aid) — More than 100 personnel from multiple government departments raided a Christian care center in China’s southern Guangdong province on Thursday, seized 15 staff members and patients, including an infant, and relocated them to another shelter. Under the pretense of conducting a medical check-up, authorities forced their way into a Huizhou […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An imam who threatened a convert from Islam in eastern Uganda has been arrested in connection with the killing of the 28-year-old Christian, sources said. Laurence Maiso’s body was found at his house, his head in a pool of blood, on Jan. 27 at around 5 p.m. in Numuseru village, […]