Mar 12, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 12, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – A former classmate of an 18-year-old Christian in Pakistan accused him of blasphemy after failing to convert him to Islam, impeding the accused’s college studies and his family’s...
Mar 11, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 11, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – The Christian parents of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan who was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam last month fear she could be sold to sex traffickers, sources said. A month...
Mar 8, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 8, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan are pressuring a young Christian woman to withdraw charges against two Muslims who raped, blackmailed and tried to forcibly convert her to Islam, sources said. The...
Mar 7, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 7, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – With a soaring number of blasphemy allegations in Pakistan in 2023, rights activists are reiterating demands for legislation against blatant abuse of the country’s notorious blasphemy...
Mar 7, 2024 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 7, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – Muslim terrorists killed two Christians and kidnapped dozens of others in an attack on the outskirts of the city of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, sources said. The assailants invaded Gonin...
Mar 6, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 6, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court’s recent directive to strictly enforce anti-child marriage laws has raised hope among Pakistan’s Christians of some protection against their underage girls being...
Mar 4, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 4, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – A judge in Pakistan on Friday (March 1) acquitted two Christian brothers of false blasphemy charges that had led to Muslims attacking Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala last...
Feb 29, 2024 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, February 29, 2024 (Morning Star News) – The head of Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency said officials are focussing on protecting teenaged children and women from Islamic radicalization as they have become the most targeted groups. Citing a...
Feb 28, 2024 | News & Stories
February 28, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Two millennia ago, Jesus of Nazareth said, “Yes, what sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you crush people with unbearable religious demands, and you never lift a finger to ease their burden.” (Luke 11:46, NLT). What...
Feb 28, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 28, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – A Christian sentenced to death in one blasphemy case in Pakistan was acquitted on Feb. 20 in another related to the same incident, with the judge citing double jeopardy, his...
Feb 27, 2024 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 27, 2024 (Morning Star News) – More than a month after the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered Pastor Keshab Raj Acharya to serve one year in prison under a law against proselytizing, he seeks to convert the sentence into a fine. He won’t be able to...
Feb 26, 2024 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 26, 2024 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – A Catholic has languished in jail for six months on a blasphemy charge even though a teenage boy has confessed and told police the 34-year-old father had no part in the acts,...