HONG KONG (Morning Star News) – Pastor Thongkham Philavanh was feeding his chickens and ducks behind his house in Vanghay village, northwestern Laos, on Monday (July 22) when two men on motorcycles, faces covered, arrived. After a brief exchange, one of the gunmen fired seven shots into his head and body. The assailant’s gun was fitted […]
Unknown Assailants Shoot Pastor Dead in Laos
Provincial leader of Lao Evangelical Church attacked at home.
July 28, 2024 By -
Wedding Disrupted, Worship Banned at Site in Indonesia
July 5, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, INDONESIA (Morning Star News) – Local officials in Indonesia on Sunday (June 30) stopped a wedding ceremony and banned the church from further worship meetings at the site, sources said. In Mergosari, Tarik District, Sidoarjo Regency of Java island, village head Eko Budi Santoso halted the wedding at the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia (Gereja Pentekosta […]
Pastor, Five Other Christians Arrested in Laos
Village officials detain them at prayer meeting.
June 27, 2024 By -
(Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Village officials in central Laos on Saturday (June 22) arrested a pastor and five other Christians as they prayed in preparation for worship services the next day, according to a rights watchdog. Tahae village authorities arrested the church leader, identified only as Pastor Mum, and the other Christians in […]
Muslim Family Disrupts Christian Worship in Indonesia
Local official, wife and son yell bad names at house church members.
May 13, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A local official and his Muslim family last week disrupted house church worship in an area of Java island, Indonesia where it has never happened before. In East Java Province’s Betiting village, in Cerme Sub-Regency of Gresik Regency, the head of the citizen association (Ketua Rukun Warga, or RW) […]
Muslims Attack Catholic Students with Knives in Indonesia
Two young women slightly wounded.
May 8, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Two young women were slightly wounded when a mob of Muslims on Sunday (May 5) assaulted a group of 15 students engaged in a Catholic ritual prayer at a rented house in Banten Province, on the Indonesian island of Java, sources said. Enraged at the Catholic group praying the […]
Pastor in Indonesia Accused of Blasphemy
Muslims in two regions file complaints.
April 25, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim leaders have filed complaints of blasphemy against a leading Christian pastor in Indonesia. After Pastor Gilbert Lumoindong of the Indonesia Bethel Church (Gereja Bethel Indonesia, GBI) mentioned Islamic prayer and alms-giving in comparison with biblical tithing in a video of his comments from a Sunday sermon, attorney Farhat Abbas […]
Vietnamese Churches Demand Investigation of Christian’s Death
Petition demands full, fair inquiry.
April 22, 2024 By -
(Morning Star News) – Relatives of Y Bum Bya, a member of the Evangelical Church of Christ of the Western Highlands (ECCWH), on March 8 found his battered body hanging from a tree with a rope around his neck. Police, saying they were coming to return a cell phone that they had confiscated from him, […]
Muslims in Indonesia End Church’s Meetings in Home
Local residents object to use of house for worship.
March 22, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim residents objecting to house-church worship in western Indonesia on Sunday (March 17) compelled the pastor to discontinue using her home for services, sources said. On the western tip of Java Island, dozens of Muslim residents gathered outside the house after worship ended in Saga Bunar, Balaraja Sub-District, Tangerang […]
Islamic Extremists in Indonesia Targeting Youth, Women
‘Active intolerant’ teenagers increasing, official says.
February 29, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – The head of Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency said officials are focussing on protecting teenaged children and women from Islamic radicalization as they have become the most targeted groups. Citing a report by the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, Rycko Amelza Dahniel of the National Counter-terrorism Agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Terorisme, […]
Ominous New Decree 95 Confirms Vietnam’s Intent to Control Religion
Shutting down churches will be easier, raising and receiving funds much harder.
February 28, 2024 By -
(Morning Star News) – Two millennia ago, Jesus of Nazareth said, “Yes, what sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you crush people with unbearable religious demands, and you never lift a finger to ease their burden.” (Luke 11:46, NLT). What Jesus said about the religious zealots of His day could also be said […]