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• After Massacre, Nigeria’s Benue, Plateau States Attacked Anew

  07-07-2025 19:08 via christiannews.net
  Villagers protest massacre in Yelwata, Guma County, Benue state, Nigeria in mid-June 2025. (Screenshot from Channels Television report on YouTube) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Less than three weeks after a large-scale massacre in Benue state’s predominantly Christian Yelwata village in Nigeria, four...
  
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• Church Members in India Fear Attending Worship after Assault

  04-07-2025 18:08 via christiannews.net
  Chairs smashed in attack on church in Borsi village, Dhamtari District, Chattisgarh, India on June 8, 2025. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in central India on June 8 ransacked a church’s worship building, burned Bibles and assaulted every member, causing one to lose consciousness, sources said. In Chhattisgarh...
  
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• Fate of Christian Refugees India Cast into Sea Still Unknown

  01-07-2025 21:33 via christiannews.net
  Rohingya Christian refugee John Anwar was detained on May 6, 2025. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Relatives of ethnic Rohingya Christian refugees cast into the sea by India’s navy have yet to hear from them nearly two months after the cast-offs swam ashore to their native Myanmar (Burma). “If someone could just tell us if...
  
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• Muslim Mob Disrupts Christian Retreat in Indonesia

  30-06-2025 19:05 via christiannews.net
  Nurul Huda Mosque in Cidahu, Kuningan, West Java Province, Indonesia. (Syam Ciremai, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – As police and soldiers looked on, about 200 Muslims on Friday (June 27) stormed a Christian youth retreat at a home in Indonesia, driving out participants and damaging property, sources said. Carrying banners...
  
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• Christian Girl Kidnapped for Two Years in Pakistan Escapes

  24-06-2025 21:44 via christiannews.net
  Muridke railway station, Sheikhupura District, Pakistan. (Fahads1982, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian girl who this month escaped the Muslim who kidnapped her said he forcibly converted her to Islam and repeatedly sexually assaulted her as his “wife.” Muskan Liaqat was 14...
  
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• Christian Mother in Pakistan Raped at Gunpoint

  24-06-2025 17:53 via christiannews.net
  Police vehicles in Pakistan. (Akash0078, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five children in Pakistan was raped at gunpoint by a Muslim who had been harassing and pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him, her husband said. The 36-year-old woman was alone in her house in...
  
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• ICC Report Exposes Hidden Cost of Sanctions on Persecuted Christians

  23-06-2025 17:11 via christiannews.net
  6/23/2025 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) — International sanctions cripple more than just governments, they’re also crushing vulnerable Christian communities.   In a new report released today, “Sanctioned and Silenced: Why sanctions have failed Christian communities in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq,” International...
  
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• Bullied 8-Year-Old Christian Boy Dies after Assault in Indonesia

  18-06-2025 17:52 via christiannews.net
  Muhammadan Mosque in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. (Zhilal Darma, Creative Commons) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – An 8-year-old Christian boy in Indonesia died from a ruptured appendix on May 26, days after older Muslim students beat him so severely he required hospital treatment, sources said. It was unclear whether the beating of second-grade...
  
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• Blasphemy Laws Misused to Seize Religious Minorities’ Property in Pakistan: HRW

  16-06-2025 18:38 via christiannews.net
  Muslim mob attacks dancer falsely accused of blasphemy in Pakistan in Hum TV drama, “Tan Man Neel o Neel.” (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News screenshot) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are being systematically misused to target religious minorities,...
  
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• Christian Falsely Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan Is Acquitted

  13-06-2025 21:21 via christiannews.net
  
  Farhan Javed Masih with mother after his release from prison on June 12, 2025. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A judge in Pakistan on Thursday (June 12) acquitted a Christian of blasphemy and terrorism charges after the prosecution failed to prove its case against...
  
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• MP welcomed 72 hours of Pentecost prayer

  10-06-2025 17:31 via christian.org.uk
  The contribution of the Church to the nation’s spiritual life has been recognised in Parliament in an Early Day Motion (EDM).
  
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• More than 1,000 doctors urge MPs to vote against Leadbeater Bill

  10-06-2025 15:07 via christian.org.uk
  MPs have been urged to reject Kim Leadbeater’s dangerous assisted suicide Bill in a letter signed by more than a thousand health care professionals.
  
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• Officials Affirm Egypt Will Not Seize Historic Monastery

  09-06-2025 18:41 via christiannews.net
  Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt. (Joonas Plaan, Creative Commons) LONDON (Morning Star News) – Meeting on a possible forced closure of the world’s oldest continuously active Christian monastery, Greek and Egyptian officials last week stated the monastery and its monks would be protected but provided no clear legal guarantees on how...
  
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• Pope Leo criticises ‘exclusionary mindset’ of nationalist political movements

  08-06-2025 12:08
  During Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope asked that God ‘open borders, break down walls [and] dispel hatred’Pope Leo has criticised the emergence of nationalist political movements and their “exclusionary mindset”, without naming a specific country or leader.Leo, the first pope from the US, asked during a mass on Sunday with tens of thousands in St Peter’s Square that God “open borders, break down walls [and] dispel hatred”. Continue readi
  
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• Slaughter of Christians Escalates in Plateau State, Nigeria

  06-06-2025 20:17 via christiannews.net
  Location of Plateau state in Nigeria. (Himalayan Explorer based on work by Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – After slaughtering at least 50 Christians in one area of Plateau state, Nigeria in April, Fulani herdsmen this week killed five more in the same county, sources said. In Bassa...
  
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• Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused in Jaranwala Attacks

  06-06-2025 19:13 via christiannews.net
  Belongings of Christians burned in Muslim rioting in Jaranwala, Pakistan on Aug. 16, 2023. (Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Defective police investigation resulted in the acquittal of 10 Muslims involved in burning a church building and ransacking a Christian’s home during the Aug. 16,...
  
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• Concerns over Leadbeater Bill ‘safeguards’ causes disabled MP to drop support

  06-06-2025 16:35 via christian.org.uk
  A lack of “appropriate safeguards” has led a disabled MP to reconsider his support for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill.
  
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• New BBC drama accused of 'bending knee to trans cult'

  06-06-2025 16:32 via christian.org.uk
  A BBC-commissioned drama has been criticised for pandering to transgender ideology.
  
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• ‘Both lives matter’, MPs told in abortion decriminalisation debate

  06-06-2025 16:28 via christian.org.uk
  MPs have spoken in defence of the unborn and the welfare of expectant mothers in Parliament.
  
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• ‘We need to talk about marriage’: Family breakdown hits record heights

  06-06-2025 16:24 via christian.org.uk
  Family breakdown is the highest it has ever been due to the rise of cohabitation, a new study suggests.
  
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• Abortions surge 50 per cent in a decade, Scottish statistics show

  06-06-2025 16:21 via christian.org.uk
  There has been a “sustained and substantial” increase in abortions in Scotland in the last ten years, official statistics have found.
  
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• Catholics now make up little more than half Brazil’s population

  06-06-2025 15:00
  Census finds just 56.7% in world’s biggest Catholic country follow Roman church as evangelical numbers riseHome to the world’s largest Catholic population, Brazil has once again witnessed a decline in the faith’s following, according to new figures released by the country’s national statistics institute (IBGE).Thirty years ago, Catholics made up 82.9% of Brazil’s population but now account for just over half, 56.7%, according to the 2022 census – whose results
  
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• Betting giant rewards problem gamblers

  06-06-2025 11:15 via christian.org.uk
  An Irish betting company has been rewarding problem gamblers to entice them to continue spending money, according to The Irish News.
  
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• IVF is life-changing for infertile families. But the Christian right says it’s not in ‘God’s plan’

  05-06-2025 13:00
  By casting excess embryos as ‘little frozen orphans’ that needed to be ‘saved’ these programs push an alarming view of personhoodAs soon as they arrived home, Tyler, seven, and Jayden, three, rushed to a small green tent perched on the living room table and pressed their faces against its mesh windows. Inside, several gray cocoons hung immobile as the boys’ eyes eagerly scanned them for the slightest sign of movement. “We’re waiting for butterflies to em
  
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• Nevada Governor: ‘I will not sign assisted suicide Bill’

  05-06-2025 12:34 via christian.org.uk
  The Governor of the US state of Nevada has derailed an assisted suicide Bill, stating: “I will not sign it”.
  
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• Herdsmen Kill 70-Year-Old Pastor, 35 other Christians in Nigeria

  04-06-2025 21:55 via christiannews.net
  Central Mosque, Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. (El-siddeeq lame, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen this week killed at least nine Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, following the slaughter of 27 others days before, sources said. The attacks took place in Bokkos County in the...
  
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• BMA challenges need to report sex between adults and ‘consenting’ children

  04-06-2025 17:44 via christian.org.uk
  Doctors should not be required to report sexual activity involving a child if they deem it ‘consensual’ — even if it involves an adult — the British Medical Association (BMA) has said.
  
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• Child gambling surge sparks Irish Government action

  04-06-2025 15:22 via christian.org.uk
  Ireland has announced plans to crack down on gambling ads for children following results from an international study.
  
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• ‘It’s getting worse’: Locals speak out against drug consumption room

  04-06-2025 11:54 via christian.org.uk
  Local residents have criticised Scotland’s first drug consumption room for worsening problems associated with drug-taking in the area.
  
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• Ireland told to limit free speech with ‘draconian’ EU hate speech laws

  04-06-2025 11:40 via christian.org.uk
  The European Commission has threatened Ireland with legal action if it does not introduce further restrictions on free speech.
  
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• Churches Targeted on Easter in India Remain Closed

  03-06-2025 20:38 via christiannews.net
  Pastor Ganesh Vijay Koli and Assistant Pastor Benjamin Gamit were assaulted in Surat, Gujarat state, India on April 20, 2025. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – More than a month after Hindu nationalist groups in India targeted two Christian congregations on Easter, the churches remain shut while awaiting police action, sources said. The...
  
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• Order for Church to Leave Worship Site Overturned in Indonesia

  03-06-2025 17:33 via christiannews.net
  Pastor Herri Soesanto objects to manhandling at sealing of church in Jombang, East Java Province, Indonesia. (Screenshot of YouTube video) SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – In a rare move in Indonesia, an administrative court earlier this year overturned a local government order for a church to vacate its worship site, sources said. The Jombang...
  
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• Nigel Farage: UK abortion limit is ‘utterly ludicrous’ and should be reduced

  02-06-2025 16:40 via christian.org.uk
  Nigel Farage has branded the UK’s abortion law “totally out of date” and says the abortion limit should be reduced to match viability.
  
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• Bill to Curb Child Marriages Signed into Law in Pakistan

  30-05-2025 22:09 via christiannews.net
  Notification by president of Pakistan enacting legislation against child marriages. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Despite fierce opposition from Islamist groups in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday (May 30) signed into law a landmark bill to curb...
  
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• Christians urged to unite in prayer against assisted suicide

  30-05-2025 17:03 via christian.org.uk
  The Christian Institute and other evangelical groups are calling on Christians to again unite in a national day of prayer against the assisted suicide Bills at Westminster and Holyrood.
  
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• Ash Regan lodges Holyrood Bill aiming to protect women from prostitution

  30-05-2025 16:59 via christian.org.uk
  A Bill seeking to protect vulnerable women and girls from prostitution has been launched at Holyrood by Ash Regan MSP.
  
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• Bespoke gene therapy transforms child’s life

  30-05-2025 16:40 via christian.org.uk
  A child born with a life-threatening genetic disorder has been successfully treated using pioneering ethical gene therapy.
  
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• Cancer patient criticises lack of mental health support for terminal illness

  30-05-2025 16:30 via christian.org.uk
  A cancer patient has shared how she was wrongly told she had just a few months to live.
  
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• Man almost dies after taking partner's assisted suicide drugs

  30-05-2025 12:35 via christian.org.uk
  An Australian man has almost died after taking his partner’s assisted suicide drugs.
  
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• One of Two Kidnapped Christian Workers Freed in NW Nigeria

  29-05-2025 20:47 via christiannews.net
  Location of Kebbi state in Nigeria. (Himalayan Explorer based on work by Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – One of two Christian workers kidnapped in northwest Nigeria on May 21 was freed this week, ministry leaders said. Ojo John and Silvanus Abu of Nupe Missions, who were working among...
  
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• US Christian cannot be forced to photograph same-sex weddings

  29-05-2025 15:54 via christian.org.uk
  A Christian photographer cannot be forced to promote same-sex weddings under New York state law, a US district court has ruled.
  
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• The Ritual review – Al Pacino is priestly mastermind in tale of infamous real-life exorcism

  29-05-2025 11:01
  Pacino is somewhat flat and Dan Stevens seems to be waiting for the final curtain as they with a young woman in Iowa apparently possessed by a demonThis low-budget, minor-key and – frankly – dreary horror feature offers yet another dramatisation of the 1928 exorcism of a young woman (played here by Abigail Cowen), known by her alias Anna Ecklund and her real name Emma Schmidt. The real-life ritual, which transpired at a nunnery in Iowa, was overseen by elderly German Capuchin priest
  
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• Bill Criminalizing Child Marriage in Pakistan Rejected as ‘Un-Islamic’

  28-05-2025 19:01 via christiannews.net
  The Council of Islamic Ideology on May 27, 2025 termed Pakistan’s anti-child marriage bill ‘un-Islamic.’ (CII Facebook) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s top Islamic body on Tuesday (May 27) rejected a bill that seeks to criminalize child marriages in Islamabad, describing it as...
  
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• Ex-Addict in Somalia Driven from Home for Accepting Christ

  27-05-2025 17:28 via christiannews.net
  Location of Lower Juba Region, Somalia. (Map data © 2025 Google) NAIROBI, Kenya (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim parents in southern Somalia were overjoyed to see their missing 20-year-old son, a drug addict, return home free of substance abuse this month. When they discovered that his transformation sprang from putting...
  
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• Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

  25-05-2025 16:35
  Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’In 1981, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who has died aged 96, tore up the work he was then writing on ethics, and produced what became his best known book, After Virtue. In it, he excoriated current moral philosophy and, indeed, current morality itself, complaining that morality has been cut off from its roots in tradition, and, “largely thanks to t
  
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• Can Pope Leo retain US citizenship while leading a foreign government?

  25-05-2025 15:28
  US state department says on website it may ‘actively review’ status of Americans who ‘serve as a foreign head of state’Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church elevated him to the rare, legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the US and Peru, where he spent time as a mis
  
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• Magna Carta wasn’t the first document to state that the king is not above the law | Letters

  21-05-2025 18:43
  Rabbi Ian Silverman highlights a passage in Deutoronomy that lays out the same principleYour report claims that the Magna Carta was the first document to put in writing that the king is not above the law (Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say, 15 May). I was struck that millennia before, another iconic document commanded the exact principle. Deuteronomy 17:18-20 proclaims: “When he is sitting upon his royal throne, he shall write a copy of this
  
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• Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV. They have good reason to fear him | Julian Coman

  21-05-2025 09:00
  They have been quick to brand the new pope an ‘anti-Trump’ ‘total Marxist’. In return, he is already critiquing their worldviewIn the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. Take Laura Loomer, the thirtysomething influencer and conspiracy theorist, whose verdict on Leo XIV was as instant as it was theologically uninformed: “Anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Border
  
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• Bill to Curb Child Marriages Passes Parliament in Pakistan

  20-05-2025 23:26 via christiannews.net
  Session of National Assembly in Pakistan. (Voice of America) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s parliament on Monday (May 19) passed a significant bill aiming to curb, discourage and eventually eradicate child marriages in the federal capital by raising the legal age of marriage for both boys and...
  
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• Pope Leo XIV receives White House invitation in meeting with JD Vance

  19-05-2025 18:17
  US vice-president delivers letter from Donald and Melania Trump during talks with pontiff at the VaticanDonald Trump has issued a White House invitation to Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born pontiff who as Cardinal Robert Prevost previously criticised Trump’s administration.The invitation came via a letter from the US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, that was delivered to the pope by the US vice-president, JD Vance, during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday morning. Continue readin
  
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