(WND) — Robert Francis Prevost, also known as “Pope Leo” and head of the worldwide Catholic Church, has handed over to Muslims a “prayer room” in the Vatican, the heart of the [s0-called] church. It is in a report at the Independent Sentinel that explains the confirmation came from a “casual remark,” not a formal statement […]
Sudan border with South Sudan. (Map data © 2025 Google) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan last week deported more than 100 predominantly Christian, South Sudanese women from Khartoum in what critics say was for both religious and political reasons. At least 61 of the deported women were separated from their children, according […]
(CBC) — Hamas fighters tightened their grip in Gaza on Tuesday after carrying out public executions, defying any suggestions the Palestinian militant group is willing to cede control of the embattled territory. In a stark assertion of the group’s return, fighters executed men they accused of collaborating with Israeli forces. In one video circulated late […]
(The Times of Israel) — US President Donald Trump declared “the historic dawn of the new Middle East” in a triumphant address before the Knesset on Monday, as the final 20 living hostages were released from Gaza under a US-brokered ceasefire deal. Trump said it marked “not only the end of war, but the end of […]
(Christian News Network) — President Donald Trump raised questions over the weekend with comments suggesting he is unsure if he will make it to Heaven. The remarks came as he traveled on Air Force One to Israel to sign a peace initiative aimed at ending the war in Gaza. “I don’t think there’s anything going to get […]
(CNBC) — Israel’s Defense Forces on Friday said a ceasefire agreement in Gaza came into effect from 12 p.m. local time (5 a.m.) ET, with troops pulling back from some parts of the enclave under the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan. The announcement comes shortly after Israel’s government approved a deal […]
The Rev. James Audu Issa, ECWA pastor in Ekati, Kwara state, Nigeria, was found dead on Oct. 2, 2025. (ECWA church, Ekati) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani criminals in western Nigeria kidnapped and killed a Christian pastor despite receiving 5 million naira ($3,125 USD) in ransom, sources said. The Rev. James Audu […]
Zafar Bhatti with wife Nawab Bibi after his release from prison. (British Asian Christian Association) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A pastor acquitted of a false blasphemy charge after 13 years of languishing in prison tragically died two days after his release, a rights group said. Pastor Zafar Bhatti, 62-year-old founder of the […]
Pastor Praveen Pagadala was a well-known evangelist in southern India. (Morning Star News) HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence the continually threatened evangelist was murdered. Pastor Praveen Pagadala’s […]
Kacheri group of Hindu temples, Dwarahat, Uttarakhand state, India. (Creative Commons) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The first Christian charged under Uttarakhand state, India’s “anti-conversion” law has become the first to be acquitted under the statute, sources said. After a four-year legal battle, Judicial Magistrate Anju (who uses only one name) of the Ramnagar Court […]