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Gunmen believed to be members of the deadly Islamic extremist Boko Haram group yesterday (Tuesday, May 14, 2013) killed the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, secretary of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of...
“Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group that has been waging a violent campaign to establish an Islamic state in Northern Nigeria for over three years, has called a surprise truce.” This was stated in an...
Three men threw Molotov cocktails at two churches in Makassar, the provincial capital, in the early hours of Sunday, February 10, 2013. The front door and sign of the Toraja Mamassa Church of Jordan Congregation...
Joseph S. Blatter, President of FIFA, the world governing body of football (soccer), paid a remarkable honor to Mercy Ships volunteers and patients when he paused from his hectic schedule to pay a personal visit...
“I’m happy to have been the inspiration behind the new (Risson) AP40 model,” said Al Perkins, a Grammy-award winning country and Christian music artist. “Its power, tone and size are exactly what I’ve needed for...
An Arctic blast swept over the rooftop of the Apple Corps Building in Savile Row, Mayfair, London, on January 30, 1969 when The Beatles assembled (along with keyboardist Billy Preston) for their famous last-ever 42-minute...
“Popular Chinese microblog, Weibo, has been used by people to express religious beliefs and to voice criticisms, for example of some local government actions. Indeed, the government may be using Weibo to monitor the behavior...
Jubilee Campaign and the Christian Association of Nigerian Americans (CANAN) — www.cananusa.org – has told the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net) that it welcomes the status report just released by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office...
Egypt’s Coptic Christians will learn the name of their new pope on Sunday, when a blindfolded child selects the name of one of three candidates. The BBC is reporting that Two bishops and a monk...
According to Morning Star News, Islamists burned several church buildings in various parts of Tanzania this week after two children’s argument about the Koran resulted in a Christian boy allegedly defiling Islam’s sacred book. ...
According to a respected Middle Eastern journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, writing for Assyrian International News Agency (www. www.aina.org), a Muslim gang in Egypt has attempted to kidnap a Christian mother, and their attack left four dead....
A one-time Australian rock star Dr Themi Adams who is now a missionary in Sierra Leone has told us an extraordinary story of how victims of shocking “war crimes” in this country will soon receive...
Rhonda Fleming, a true Hollywood original and an “Ambassador for Christ”, describes how ‘God healed her husband after a stroke. Sitting quietly with her husband Darol Wayne Carlson, in the audience of the 14th Annual...
The strange case of Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian Pakistani girl who had faced life in prison for allegedly burning the Koran, but then police declared that she was “innocent”, took another twist today, when...
Sumbal Masih, a teenage Pakistani Christian girl who was working as a maid for a Muslim family, has allegedly been “tortured” by her employers, and is now missing. Sumbal Masih This has been alleged by...
As the Syrian civil war, also referred to as the Syrian uprising, continues to spiral out of control, with the ongoing armed conflict being fought between forces loyal to the Ba’ath Party government and those...
Gary and Louis Short, leaders of Hope for Life International based in Arlington, WA (www.hopeforlifeinternational.org), are requesting urgent prayer for David, a young Christian leader in South Sudan who they says was jailed “unjustly” two...
Cecil Chaudhry, 71, a veteran fighter pilot of Pakistan Air Force, died at the age of 71, on Friday, April 13, 2012, at the Combined Military Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, after suffering from lung cancer. A...
As we approach the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, my thoughts again returned to where I was as the events of that terrible day unfolded. I appreciate the gift of writing that the...
Where were you during the september 11 attacks? The assaults were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists...
Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani May Face New Charges. “The new leveled charges raise concern that following widespread international criticism about the ruling issued for Mr. Nadarkhani, Iranian authorities wish to influence the case process by...
Jhan Moskowitz, 64, one of the founders of Jews for Jesus, the best known Jewish evangelism agency in the world, has died after a fall on a subway in New York City. Jhan Moskowitz Moskowitz...
Pakistan ‘Quran plot’ imam Khalid Jadoon, who fabricated evidence against Rimsha Masih, was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Quran to the burnt pages...
Recently, a friend asked me which of the thousands of interviews I have done over the years had impacted me the most. That was an easy one to answer. It was with Mother Teresa of...
Around 5,000 victims and survivors of the 2008 communal violence in Kandhamal district, Orissa, attended a public rally yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of the violence and call for justice, peace and harmony. Local...
Beijing human rights lawyers Li Xiongbing and Li Subin, engaged by Gao’s eldest brother, traveled Sunday from Xinhe county to Shaya county, in the remote part of the region of Xinjiang where Gao is being...
A Christian minor girl from Sahiwal, a city in Punjab, Pakistan, was recently murdered after being “gang raped” by a group of five Muslim men. The dead girl, Muqadas Kainat Photo supplied by LEAD Family...
African journalist Wasul Chemosi, writing for International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org), is reporting that the Evangelical Victory Church of Game-Loitiki, a village located abouter 4 ½ miles outside of Isiolo, Kenya, was attacked and looted on...
Just as it seemed that Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law couldn’t sink any lower, we have received news that an 11-year-old Pakistani Christian girl who sufferers from Down’s Syndrome, was arrested and charged with blasphemy on...
The patriarch of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, Abune Paulos has died aged 76, officials said yesterday. “His holiness has passed away,” government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told the news agency, AFP, but could not provide details of...
