KABUL, Afghanistan (New York Times) — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not […]
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Terrorists from the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf were suspected in the bombing of a passenger bus in the city of Zamboanga on Friday that killed a 14-year-old girl and wounded 33 others. Authorities said Abu Sayyaf had threatened D’Biel Transit, attempting without success to extort monthly payments from the […]
TURKEY (Mission Network News) — As if believers in Turkey didn’t have enough to deal with, evangelical leaders are now receiving death threats from ISIS. “These threats are against Islamic converts to Christianity,” Rody Rodeheaver of International Needs explains. “ISIS wants to make an example of them, and are threatening to do just that.” This news, along with […]
NEW YORK — The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. has pledged to continue to inplead the case of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran when she appears before the United Nations. Samantha Power met with the wife of Pastor Saeed Abedini on Friday at the U.S. Mission in New York City. As previously reported, Abedini, a […]
Half a million children have fled attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram over the past five months, the UN children’s agency says. Unicef says this brings the total number of displaced children in Nigeria and neighboring countries to 1.4 million. Tens of thousands are suffering from acute malnutrition and some of their camps have been […]
LUANG PRABANG PROVINCE, Laos (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern Laos who disregarded officials’ orders to stop preaching Christ has been stabbed to death, sources said. A prison official identified only as Wansai entered the home of pastor Singkeaw Wongkongpheng in Na-ang village, Chomphet District, Luang Prabang Province on the night of Sept. 8, relatives told […]
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attack on a prayer meeting in Jharkhand state that sent six people to the hospital on Sept. 4 began when Hindu women entered the home where it was held and began insulting Christians, sources said. By the end of the day, Hindu extremists with guns, axes, spades and clubs […]
ASELA, Ethiopia (Open Doors USA) — A group of Christians from Asela, Ethiopia, who have been facing charges of holding illegal meetings in a secret location, has been set free. The Lord answered many prayers for them when the judge dismissed all charges against them on Aug. 26. He then ordered that the bail they […]
A Christian evangelist and apologist has established September 13 of each year as global “Mercy Day”—a time for Christians to celebrate the mercy of God and to share the gospel by telling others about the meaning of the rainbow. Sye Ten Bruggencate announced the launch of Mercy Day shortly before midnight as he embarks on […]
ZHEZIANG, China (China Aid)— Authorities detained two church deacons in Wenzhou on Sunday and Monday after churches re-erected crosses that had been demolished. Wenzhou police detained Huang Xiaoyuan, a deacon of Shangzhou Church in the Tengqiao religious district, and Zhang Zhi, a deacon of Xianqiao Church, last week. Police have provided no information about Huang […]