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NAIROBI, Kenya, August 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A month after a Christian was killed in Kiboga District, Uganda, a pastor in the same district fears for his life following death threats from Muslim extremists, he said. Pastor Godfrey Ssemujju, who oversees 130 Elim Pentecostal churches in Kiboga district, 75 miles northwest of Kampala, […]
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late yesterday. She met today with Taiwanese lawmakers and then with Taiwan’s president. Some are supporting her visit; others are criticizing her. China responded by announcing military exercises that will surround the island. My focus today is not on the politics of her trip […]
Dr. Russell Moore, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has been named Christianity Today‘s editor-in-chief. Moore, who currently serves as CT’s Public Theologian director of the Public Theology Project, will assume his new role on September 1. The news was first announced by CT’s President and CEO, Timothy Dalrymple. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on July 29 came to the home of an evangelist who had held open-air events in eastern Uganda and killed him, sources said. Cut with a sharp instrument that left his head and neck with deep wounds, Sozi Odongo was killed at his home […]
According to The Christian Post, conservative activist Harold Shurtleff of the group Camp Constitution initially requested to fly the white and blue flag with a red cross symbol outside City Hall in 2017. Five years later, his request was approved. “I do want to give the glory to God because God’s hand was in this […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (July 31) killed seven Christians, including four children, in an attack in Plateau state, Nigeria, following months of violence in neighboring Taraba state, sources said. Following a July 21 attack in Fusa village, Plateau state that left five Christians dead, assailants […]
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says the Iranian government is encouraging “derogatory public opinion” against Christianity and other faiths using Iranian media outlets. According to The Christian Post, the report, “Religious Propaganda in Iran,” from the commission’s bipartisan federal advisory committee, says Iran’s government is using official media, government-run social media and other […]
Prominent Southern Baptist theologians released a statement last week, clarifying the meaning of the word “pastor” as it has come up for debate recently. The document, “A Statement Concerning the Baptist Faith & Message and the Word ‘Pastor,’” was released last week by Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Chuck Kelley, president of […]
NOTE: President Biden stated last night that a US missile killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. I will publish a Daily Article Special Edition this morning with reflections on this historic announcement. NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson was baptized in the Jordan River in 2019; videos and photos of the event quickly went viral. He […]
A new study found that religious millennials who engage with digital religion say their faith has been enriched with technology. The study, “Digital Religion Among U.S. and Canadian Millennial Adults,” was recently published in the Review of Religious Research. Millennials included those born from 1994 to 2001. The data in the study is from 2019 […]