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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Cancer survivor completes marathon, returns overseas | Baptist Press
Last year, cancer survivor Gina Wilson was featured in the 2013 Week of Prayer stories released by the International Mission Board. The story shared how the missionary was recovering in South Carolina from her second battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Since then, she has completed a marathon and returned to Scotland to continue sharing the Gospel.
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As Injustice Escalates, Senator in Pakistan Seeks Solution to ‘Blasphemy’ Violence – Morningstar News
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In the span of one month, a Christian blogger who hid for more than three years on a blasphemy charge was arrested; a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for allegedly speaking ill of Muhammad filed her appeal with the Supreme Court; and a mob tortured and […]
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WEEK OF PRAYER: Family called to reach war ground of South Sudan | Baptist Press
IMB missionaries Robert and Maridith Lane have learned to deal with danger and hardship, serving among the "war-like" people of South Sudan. They share how their resolve is sustained through the calling they feel to be there to teach people how God's love overcomes man's hate.
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Two Pastors in Bangladesh Face Charges for Proclaiming Christ to Muslims – Morningstar News
DHAKA, Bangladesh (Morning Star News) – Two pastors in northwestern Bangladesh could face two years in prison if convicted for “hurting religious sentiments.” Police on Nov. 9 arrested the pastors and 41 people, including Muslims, who were listening to proclamation of Christ at a rented house in Nabinagar village in Lalmonirhat District, 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest […]
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Churches mobilize fellow blacks in missions | Baptist Press
For pastors, particularly African American pastors, to get more personally involved in international missions, they need positive guidance to realize that growing their local churches doesn't mean just staying focused locally but enlarging the churches' vision for reaching the nations wherever they are, advises Pastor Tony Mathews, who learned that lesson firsthand.
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Pastors experience God’s timing in Ecuador | Baptist Press
"It's time for us to live out what God has told us," a pastor says about increased missions involvement during his first missions trip.
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Missions ‘just got personal’ for pastor Tony Mathews | Baptist Press
After his first missions trip a couple of years ago, Texas pastor Tony Mathews started to take missions more personally. He also began to take a personal approach in enlisting other area African-American pastors to partner in Ecuador with IMB missionaries Johnny and Donna Maust.
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Five Months of Attacks on Mennonite Church in Vietnam Prompt SOS – Morningstar News
(Morning Star News) – Police in Vietnam on Wednesday (Nov. 12) employed thugs wielding hammers and metal cutters to ransack a church center and drag away nine Christians, who were then charged with not having proper papers – documents officials had confiscated from them in previous raids. The toughs – accompanied this time, inexplicably, […]
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Bathrooms of St. Peter’s soon to include showers for homeless
After hearing from a homeless man that a bath is more urgently need than food in Rome, the Vatican’s papal almoner commissioned that showers be added to the public restrooms in St. Peter's Square.
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No church too small for global missions, pastor says | Baptist Press
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering: Pastor encourages churches of all sizes to keep banding together to extend missions reach.
