Pastor, Daughter and Son-in-Law Slain in Plateau State, Nigeria – Morningstar News
Fulani herdsmen last month killed a pastor, his daughter and her husband, leaving the couple’s 3-month-old baby with a machete wound, in Plateau state, Nigeria.
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After mounting criticism, Scotland’s assisted suicide bill defeated in Parliament
The controversial Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill was defeated on Wednesday by the Scottish Parliament 82-36 in a free vote in Edinburgh, following rising dissent against the legislation.
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Oscar Romero, a ‘father of the poor,’ beatified in El Salvador
Archbishop Oscar Romero was beatified in El Salvador this morning, with Pope Francis declaring from the Vatican that the martyr's feast will be celebrated on March 24 each year – the day “in which he was born into heaven.”
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Nepal Hit by Second Deadly 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Weeks After Devastation That Killed Over 8,000 People
Nepal was hit by a 7 3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday which has already killed 32 people and injured over 1,000 others, with the death toll rising Back in April the country suffered widespread ...
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South Sudanese Church Leaders Jailed in Sudan Charged, Could Face Death Penalty – Morningstar News
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have charged two South Sudanese pastors under laws that call for the death penalty, their attorney said. National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officials have charged the Rev. Yat Michael and the Rev. Peter Yein Reith (also transliterated as Peter Yen Reith) with undermining the constitutional system […]
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Is This the Face of Jesus as a Child? Italian Investigators Produce Image From Shroud of Turin
Italian forensics investigators have used the Shroud of Turin, believed by some to be the burial cloth of Christ, to produce an image of how Jesus might have possibly looked like as a child
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Young Sudanese Refugee Cast Out of Home for Leaving Islam – Morningstar News
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – First an 18-year-old Sudanese Muslim became a refugee from Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state; then he received Christ and became a refugee from his family. Kuku (full name withheld) and his family, ethnic Nuba from the Kauda area, arrived at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan in 2011, shortly […]
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Nepal’s quake prompts prayer; Baptists respond | Baptist Press
Nepali believers and Christian workers are calling for prayer as they recover following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake April 25. The quake hit just 50 miles outside the capital city of Kathmandu and reached as far as India, Bangladesh and the Chinese region of Tibet. Baptist Global Response is working to assess and meet the needs of victims in Nepal.
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Pope Francis talks about his soccer ‘skills’
Pope Francis is a well-known soccer fan. But what was unknown until now is that when he was a young boy the future Pope was a “patadura”--someone who is not very good at kicking the ball. He himself admitted this in a brief interview with the online sports news site TyC Sports of Argentina.
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Islamic State Warns Those Who Refuse Islam Will Die like Ethiopians in Libya Video – Morningstar News
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In a video showing the cruel execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians, the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS) says persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam. In the video released late Sunday night (April 19), IS (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) warns that if Christians in […]
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Relic of Saint John Paul II makes pilgrimage to Cuba
Seventeen years after the historic visit of Saint John Paul II to Cuba, the Polish pope is returning to the country, thanks to a relic brought by the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary after having journeyed on pilgrimage in various cities in the United States and Guatemala.
