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NEW DELHI, March 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests, sources said. Accusing Pastor Kelom Kalyan Tete of forcible conversion as […]
An elementary school in Washington state has reportedly punished a second-grade Christian student for witnessing to other students on the playground. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative, Christian social activist organization, is representing the student and her family in their demand for retribution from North Hill Elementary. According to Christina Compagnone, an […]
Theologian and author Albert Mohler is encouraging Christians to “trust the Bible, not Amy” after a popular advice columnist endorsed polyamorous relationships as “ethical non-monogamy.” Amy Dickinson, whose “Ask Amy” advice column runs in newspapers nationwide, was asked in a recent column what advice she would give two parents whose son and daughter-in-law – married […]
An Iraqi woman who recently converted from Islam to Christianity was found murdered on March 7 after she posted a TikTok video about her new faith, according to a religious liberty watchdog. The 20-year-old woman, Iman Sami – also known as Maria – was the daughter of a Muslim cleric, according to International Christian Concern […]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announced this morning that two million people have now fled Ukraine as conditions worsen by the day. How did you react to this news? I fear that you and I are becoming accustomed to this unfolding tragedy and thus inured to the suffering we see in our […]
JUBA, South Sudan, March 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut, sources said. Hardline Muslims locked the building of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in Al Hag Abdalla, about 85 miles […]
With the Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization expected this summer, alarm has risen in the pro-abortion ranks. There is real possibility that the Court could overturn, or at least severely gut Roe v. Wade, which would curtail abortion rights, and throw the issue back to the states. Because advocates […]
California Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks has introduced a bill that would allow faith groups to build affordable housing on unused church property. Assembly Bill 2244 would allow church leaders to zone their unused land into a residential area. According to CBN News, current law allows religious institutions to remove up to 50 percent of their existing […]
NEW DELHI, March 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said. The eight assailants, including two women, who had accused him […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its second week today. Battles escalated across the country this morning, with explosions rocking the capital city, Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video on Facebook yesterday in which he told his people, “Today you, Ukrainians, are the symbol of invincibility, a symbol that people in any country […]