Hong Kong Sentences Democratic Publisher Jimmy Lai to Prison
Retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, leave court after the Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial on Monday. Associated Press...
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How to Read a Persecution News Story – Morningstar News
(Morning Star News) – Any of you who regularly follow persecution news may find that it gets hard to read after a while. In response to reader requests on how to deal with so much horrific news – one becomes either despondent or desensitized – I’ll share how I handle it. The horror of some […]
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‘Defending Islam’ Guarantees Impunity as Malaysia Bans Non-Muslims from Using ‘Allah – Morningstar News
(Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin) – Little inflames Malaysia’s Muslim fundamentalists more than the fact that Malaysian Christians use the word “Allah,” even though it is just the Malay word for God, adopted from Arabic centuries ago. The issue has gained traction in recent decades as Malaysian Muslims have radicalized, as Malaysia has gradually Islamized and, […]
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Black pastors engaged in IMB missions | Baptist Press
African American pastors travel to remote areas of Tanzania to reach the unengaged, unreached Vidunda people group. While there, they discover the need for African American churches to grasp the vision of sharing the Gospel.
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Prayer fuels church journey to SE Asia | Baptist Press
Old Town Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., wanted to embrace an unreached, unengaged people group with the Gospel but did not know where to start. The church began with prayer and followed God's leading to a people group in Southeast Asia.
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Church perseveres to embrace people group | Baptist Press
Four years ago, Old Town Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., committed long-term to embrace the T people in Southeast Asia. Despite geographical barriers, persecution and a strong Buddhist culture, God is at work among the people group.
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Messianic Jew Deported from Israel Will Appeal to Supreme Court – Morningstar News
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A British messianic Jew deported from Israel last year for participating in an evangelistic outreach to Jews confirmed that he will appeal his case to the nation’s supreme court. Barry Barnett, 50, left the country on Dec. 2 under a deportation order issued by Israel’s Ministry of the Interior. He […]
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HIV/AIDS Origin Traced to 1920s Congo City and Growing Sex Trade
A team of scientists has traced the spread of AIDS and the HIV virus to the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1920s Its report states that a growing sex trade, along with ...
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Attacks on Church in East Jerusalem Grow More Intense – Morningstar News
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In the latest of several attacks on a congregation in East Jerusalem, young men with ties to a Palestinian militant group wired shut a church door and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside hours before dawn on Monday (Sept. 29), church sources said. No one was injured as those […]
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Seven Christians Arrested in Laos for Meeting for Worship – Morningstar News
(Morning Star News) – Local officials in Laos arrested seven Christians for meeting for worship on Sunday (Sept. 28), according to a rights group. The chief of Boukham village, in Atsaphangthong District, Savannakhet Province, along with village security officials and police arrested the Christians as they ate lunch after meeting for worship in the home […]
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Pope Francis calls Benedict XVI the ultimate ‘grandfather’
Retired pontiff Benedict XVI joined some 50,000 pilgrims in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday, Sept. 28 for a meeting between Pope Francis and elderly people from around the world.
