Prayer meeting on Feb. 16, 2026 after killing of three Christians in Nialijharan village, Keonjhar District, Odisha state, India. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal relatives killed three members of a Christian family in India’s Odisha state last month, leaving three children, including a preteen and a teenager, orphaned and forcing them […]
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan. (Romero Maia, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan allegedly failed to act after a 14-year-old Christian girl was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man despite official documents showing she is a minor, her father and legal counsel said. Basharat Masih, […]
Location of Iganga District in Uganda. (OpenStreetMap contributors, Jarry1250, NordNordWest) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Uganda stabbed his son to death with a long knife for converting to Christianity last month, sources said. Hamba Ahammada, 62, of Butaleja District killed his 33-year-old son, Hamba Juma, with a long knife known locally as a […]
Changing religion on ID cards through NADRA in Pakistan is not allowed for converts from Islam. (Screenshot from My Urdu World on YouTube) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A brick kiln worker’s forced conversion to Islam in Pakistan’s national database has left his five children unable to have their Christian faith designated on […]
Punjab Province, Pakistan Gov. Saleem Haider Khan. (TheGuyFromPindi, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – In a landmark move welcomed by Christian rights advocates, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab Province on Wednesday (Feb. 11) signed into law an ordinance raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 and making child marriage a […]
Punjab Province, Pakistan Gov. Saleem Haider Khan. (TheGuyFromPindi, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – In a landmark move welcomed by Christian rights advocates, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab Province on Wednesday (Feb. 11) signed into law an ordinance raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 and making child marriage a […]
Pastor John Michael Okoel and his assistant pastor of Pallisa, Uganda were beaten for their faith on Jan. 30, 2026. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two pastors were discharged from a hospital in eastern Uganda on Sunday (Feb. 8) after a group of Muslim extremists beat them more than a week before, […]
(Christian News Network) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has sparked deep concern among proponents of the rule of law after using his administration’s first interfaith breakfast to launch a sweeping expansion of New York City’s sanctuary policies. Addressing nearly 400 faith and community leaders, the mayor explicitly linked his policy of non-cooperation with federal authorities to […]
The Rev. Bulus Madaki was killed in Plateau state, Nigeria along with his daughter and son-in-law. (Facebook) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen last month killed a pastor, his daughter and her husband, leaving the couple’s 3-month-old baby with a machete wound, in Plateau state, Nigeria. The Christian family was ambushed as they […]
On behalf of International Christian Concern (ICC), I want to express my strong and unequivocal support for the Banning Perpetrators of Religious Persecution Act, recently introduced by Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Tedd Budd (R-NC). This legislation represents a principled and necessary step toward ensuring that those responsible for violating religious freedom are held accountable […]