(Morning Star News) – The ruling today by an appeals court in Malaysia to ban non-Muslims from using the word Allah to refer to God is shocking but not surprising. Borrowed from the Arabic like other words in the Malay language, Allah is the common word for God in Malay Bibles. The word predates Islam, […]
Shocked, but Not Surprised: Court in Malaysia Bars Non-Muslims from Using ‘Allah’
Arabic word pre-dating Islam common in Malay-language Bibles.
October 14, 2013 By - 2 Comments
Officials in China Block Christians from Appealing Illegal Prison Terms, Advocacy Group Says
Banned ‘Shouters’ sentenced beyond legal limit.
October 8, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Local officials in China’s Inner Mongolia region are blocking three Christians convicted as “cult” members from appealing prison terms that exceed the legal limit, according to advocacy organization China Aid Association. The Yuquan District People’s Court in Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, convicted Hu Gong, Wen Weihong and Liu Aiying […]
Persecution News, One Year Later
Shining light amid vast darkness.
September 30, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
Today, Sept. 30, marks one year since Morning Star News began distributing news of Christians persecuted for their faith. We had planned to debut the only independent news service exclusively covering persecution of Christians on Oct. 1, 2012, but when a grenade blast at a church in Nairobi, Kenya killed a 9-year-old boy and injured […]
Islamic Extremist Violence Persists in Iraq, Nigeria – and Kenya?
Car-bombings, executions continue in two countries as doubts linger about end of siege in Nairobi.
September 24, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Amid the wave of Islamic extremist bombings that have taken place in Iraq in the past week, one aimed at a Christian member of Parliament went largely unnoticed. Catholic news agency Fides News Agency (Agenzia Fides) reports that an apparent suicide attack by car bomb in Kirkuk on Sunday (Sept. […]
Vietnam Inflicts Massive Official Force on Catholic Demonstrators
Dozens seriously injured in protest against arrest of two Christians.
September 9, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – An estimated 40 people on Vietnam’s north-central coast were seriously injured after authorities on Wednesday (Sept. 4) broke up a protest over the arrest and detention without charges of two Catholics. Several of those injured were in life-threatening condition after hundreds of police and militia with tear gas, batons and […]
Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World
An antidote to the West's dysfunctional spin on Islam.
July 30, 2013 By - 1 Comment
(Morning Star News) – Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 million to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian […]
After Persecution for Faith, a Rare Religious Rights Success in Vietnam
Christian villagers given new land, farms.
June 27, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Vietnamese authorities in Kontum Province this month resettled four severely persecuted ethnic Sedang Christian families on new land not far from where their homes and farms had been destroyed last February. This is a rare, positive government response to persecution and an important step in the struggle for religious liberty – […]
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A new news service to shed light amid vast darkness.
June 26, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
At times some Jewish friends, astonished, cannot help asking me how Christians can be so indifferent toward religiously motivated violence done to Christians. I reply that it seems Christians are largely unaware of persecution of Christians; during my seven-year stint as editor of persecution news service Compass Direct News, I was surprised to learn how […]
Vietnam Stonewalls Efforts to Rectify Religious Rights Abuses
Officials cavalier or ineffective in face of murder, destruction.
June 7, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – In February, sustained night-time attacks by “villagers with the hand of the government behind them” in Vietnam’s Central Highlands destroyed the homes and thousands of coffee plants of ethnic Sedang Christians. Eventually four families in Ngoc La village, Tumorong District, Kontum Province – 19 people in all – were forced to […]
Beyond Boko Haram: The Lethal Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians
The history of hostility goes deep into the social fabric.
April 16, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – The publicly reported Christian casualties in Nigeria last year were greater than the Christian casualties of Pakistan, Syria, Kenya and Egypt combined. In fact, Nigeria alone accounted for almost 70 percent of Christians killed globally. This makes Nigeria the most lethal country for Christians by a huge margin. While media reports […]