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 […]
MYANMAR (MNN/VBB) — Eight days ago, heavy rains came as another blow to the village of Mawchi in Kayah State, Myanmar. Already dealing with the country’s worst floods in 100 years, which struck from late July to August, the deluge caused a river to flood a bridge, wash out roads, and slow down emergency personnel […]
A small boy crawling through an obstacle course while seemingly dodging bullets is shown in a video recently released by the Islamic State. The video clip posted on the Facebook page of an IS militant, Abu Aisha al-Kazakhi, shows a young child clad in military fatigues, struggling to pass under a barb wire obstacle course […]
(Bible Society) — Last year saw the highest number of Bibles being given out by Bible Societies around the world. There was a six percent rise from 2013 as almost 34 million Bibles were distributed according to United Bible Societies. There were a total of 428.2 million scriptures being given out by international Bible Societies […]
JERUSALEM — An elderly Christian woman in Israel is crediting her survival to calling on the name of Jesus during an Islamic terror attack in Jerusalem last week. For the past 32 years, Marike Veldman, 78, has operated a foster home for Arab children in Jerusalem, raising 20 and adopting a number of the children […]
Cambodia (MNN) — You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Pregnant single moms in Cambodia live it out day after day. Many vulnerable women end up having abortions because they feel like they have no other choice. Extreme poverty drives them to eke out an existence in the muddy slums outside […]
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Breitbart) — A spate of Islamist graffiti in the multiculturalist Swedish city Gothenburg has been compared to the harassment of the Jewish community in Germany in the 1930’s, with Christian business owners being told to “convert or die.” The threats are yet another conflict imported to Europe from the Levant, as the Assyrian […]
NOVA SCOTIA — Two homosexual men recently “divorced” under Canadian law so that they could include a third man in their relationship, and now plan to have their sisters serve as surrogates to bear their children. “We just want to say that love is love. It should be multiplied not divided,” Adam Grant told the […]
WASHINGTON — The annual International Religious Freedom Report released by the U.S. Department of State on Wednesday finds that in 2014, the greatest persecutors of Christians and other groups worldwide were Islamic terror groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, but also cites that local governments often failed to provide adequate protection to dissenters. The report, which is […]