News Articles by Staff/Morning Star News

NASHVILLE (BP) -- As pastor Saeed Abedini nears the second anniversary of imprisonment in Iran, his wife Naghmeh is organizing a Sept. 26 worldwide prayer vigil for Abedini and other Christians persecuted for their faith. "I'm doing a prayer vigil on this day to remember Pastor Saeed and others who are imprisoned for Christ, but also as a chance to come together as the Body of Christ and see the move of God as we pray together," she said in a video posted on the Be Heard Project's website, an initiative of the American Center for Law and Justice. "Please join me on this special day as we come together and pray."

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (BP) -- Evangelical Christians in Bolivia have begun their battle against new measures that could result in the dissolution of Protestant denominations and other religious groups in the heavily Catholic Andean country.

CAIRO, Egypt (BP) -- One year after the attacks, Mina Thabet can still see the ruins in his mind -- a seemingly endless series of scorched, hollowed-out church buildings, schools, homes and businesses stretching out across Egypt.

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-- Tsuriel Bar-David,
hotel manager]ISTANBUL, Turkey (BP) -- A hotel's outdoor wedding site near Jerusalem at the world's only kibbutz -- a communal settlement or farm -- for Messianic Jews remains shuttered after the kibbutz lost an appeal against a ruling calling for it to host homosexual wedding parties.

NIGERIA (BP) -- Boko Haram extremists and others have killed nearly as many Nigerian Christians in the first seven months of this year as were killed in all of 2013, the advocacy group Jubilee Campaign reported Tuesday (July 29).

NAIROBI, Kenya (BP) -- Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia last week publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin in southeastern Somalia after discovering they were Christians, Morning Star News reported from sources inside the country.

LOS ANGELES (BP) -- Some of the worst anti-Christian violence in recent years has come not from Islamic extremists but from Hindu nationalists in India, an expert told a hearing in which U.S. President Barack Obama was challenged to quickly fill a key religious freedom post.

LAHORE, Pakistan (BP) -- Intimidation by Islamic militants has prompted the brother of Pakistan's first Christian cabinet minister to leave the country.       Paul Bhatti's efforts to bring the killers of his brother, Shahbaz Bhatti, to justice could be thwarted ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (BP) -- A Pakistani court's order for only the death sentence to be levied for insulting Islam's prophet will further endanger Christians and heighten the powers of the Islamic court that issued it, Morning Star News reported from sources inside the country.

CAIRO, Egypt (BP) -- An Israeli immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a Messianic Jew who was arrested for taking part in a Jews for Jesus evangelistic campaign in southern Israel.