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Empty church in this undated photo. | Unsplash More than a billion people — or close to a quarter of the world’s population — are struggling with loneliness, a new survey from Gallup and Meta shows. Younger adults are more likely to suffer from the condition, which health experts warn can have the same effect […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 25, 2023 (Morning Star News) Personnel of Kaduna State University have aided in the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Christian student, according to a campus watchdog group. Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, a 20-year-old, first-year chemistry student at the university, was an active member of the Fellowship of Christian Students when other […]
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd holds up photos of murder victim, 20-year-old Roderick Wilson Jr. and murder suspect, 22-year-old Taquion “Quan” Cotton, at a press conference in Florida on October 23, 2023. Cotton is also pictured on the right. | Screenshot: Facebook/Polk County Sheriff’s Office The mother of a 22-year-old Florida man accused of fatally […]
Chip designer Nvidia has said it will stop sending high-end artificial intelligence chips to China after the U.S. accelerated a deadline for shipping the chips. According to The Guardian, initially, the restrictions on shipping were slated to go into effect 30 days after Oct. 17, but the U.S. recently announced new measures that would stop […]
Natalie Grant, Hunter Premo and Jessica Turner host a screening of “All the Light We Cannot See” at Soho House in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 23, 2023. | Getty Images NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christian artist Natalie Grant hosted a discussion surrounding the Netflix adaptation of the novel All the Light We Cannot See, commenting on […]
A death row prisoner who helped lead a death row ministry in a Texas maximum security prison is scheduled to be executed this week. On Tuesday, the state denied Will Speer’s application for clemency. Speer has been held in Texas’ Allan B. Polunsky Unit on death row. According to Christianity Today, Speer leads prayer and […]
The success of the Bible-based streaming series The Chosen in countries such as the United States and Brazil is well-known but lesser known is its success in smaller locations such as Madagascar, where it has become a television hit, says an executive with the series. Kyle Young, vice president of global distribution, noted that The […]
Retired Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton appears on NBC’s ‘Today’ ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. | Screenshot: YouTube/AVIDEOGAL Decorated Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton is home from the hospital weeks after a battle with pneumonia led to her being admitted into the Intensive Care Unit, and her daughter is giving thanks […]
The son of one of Hamas’ founding members says the terrorist organization is a “religious movement” that has the goal of killing not only the Jewish people but also everyone who supports them. “This is an ugly war. Israel did not start it, but Israel will end it,” Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas […]
The entrance of the now-shuttered Agape Boarding School in Stockton, Missouri. | YouTube/Agape Boarding School An Idaho mother who says she trusted a now-shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri to rehabilitate her son struggling with behavioral issues has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the abuse and brutal gang rape by staff members he suffered at […]