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SURABAYA, Indonesia, May 29, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim mobs on May 19 stopped Christians from worship in two cities of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, sources said.Muslims reportedly disrupted Christians as they worshipped in a café in a village in Binjai, 13 miles from Medan, capital of North Sumatra Province. In Riau, capital of Pekanbaru Province in southern […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A christian housecleaner in Pakistan was beaten and illegally confined for a week by her Muslim employers after she tried to leave her job due to pregnancy, she said.Asma Gulfam, a 28-year-old Catholic maid in the Paka Ghara area of Sialkot District, Punjab Province, said she […]
A New York college professor has been fired after she threatened to “chop” up a New York Post reporter who went to her apartment to talk about a viral video of her shouting obscenities at student volunteers working at a pro-life display.As christian Headlines previously reported, Shellyne Rodriguez, who worked as an art professor at […]
Less than one-third of churchgoers say they volunteered for a charity or ministry the previous years, according to a new Lifeway Research survey that also found that most congregations encourage their members to be active in service.The poll of 1,002 American Protestant churchgoers found that 30 percent answered “yes” when asked if they participated in “any […]
Teenagers who are heavily influenced by social media and who don’t have a firm spiritual grounding have a significantly higher risk for suicide, according to a new study. The study of over 4,700 teens ages 14 to 17 in nine countries found a correlation between atheism/agnosticism/spiritual uncertainty, heavy use of social media and destructive thoughts. Specifically, “rates […]
christian singer Lauren Daigle talked with People magazine recently about how she struggled with stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, just as her popularity was climbing.Daigle, 31, says her latest release, a self-titled album with Atlantic Records, was directly influenced by how music and her faith helped her through those fears, The christian Post reports.The […]
A Colombian flight attendant recently shared how pop superstar Justin Bieber led her to saving faith in Jesus Christ.In a recent episode of “The Becket Cook Show”, Victoria Mandylor spoke of her upbringing leading up to her conversion, CBN News reported.”Yeah, he planted a seed,” Mandylor said of Bieber. “He was another person that was put in […]
The Church of Scotland is preparing an official apology and a statement to acknowledge its involvement with historic chattel slavery.The Faith Impact Forum, on behalf of the church, has published a “Legacies of Slavery Report” examining its role in the transatlantic slave trade. The report looked at a 131-year period from the Act of Union in 1707 […]
A pair of christian schools filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking to overturn a new Minnesota law that strips faith-based universities and colleges from a program that benefits college-bound high school students.Under the program, the Post Secondary Enrollment Options Act (PSEO), high schoolers (sophomores and up) can take classes on campus for free in […]
About 83 churches in Iowa have left the United Methodist Church’s Iowa Annual Conference in light of the denomination’s continued debate over homosexuality.According to Christianity Daily, the departure represents 11 percent of the 750 conference churches across the state. During a Tuesday night Zoom meeting hosted by Bishop Kennetha Bigham-Tsai and other conference leaders, over 500 […]
