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Photo Credit: Article 18 (Barnabas Aid) — An Iranian Christian convert has been arrested following a raid of his house by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). Rahmat Rostamipour, 49, was taken from his home in Anzali, Gilan…

Photo Credit: Parij Borgohain/Pexels (Barnabas Aid) — Extremist groups in Karnataka, India, have issued complaints against the use of the Bible in a prison and in a Christian school. A visitor to a prison in Gadag district claims to have…

Photo Credit: Christian Concern/YouTube CAMBRIDGE — An employment tribunal in the U.K. has ruled that a primary school “indirectly” discriminated against a pastor who served as a caretaker at the institution when leaders sent a written…

Church building of Pastor Hidma Sodi damaged in Bhelwapal villagel, Chhattisgarh state, India in 2017. (Morning Star News) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians falsely charged with crimes related to an act of vandalism in…

Photo Credit: Garon Piceli (The Christian Institute) — Pro-abortion campaigners are calling on the Irish government to scrap its remaining legal protections for the unborn. Ahead of the 2018 referendum on repealing Ireland’s pro-life laws,…

El Jedid Mosque in Algiers, Algeria. (Damien Boilley, Creative Commons) TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A group of Christians arrested on Dec. 12 received a reduction in their sentence for “unauthorized worship” last week,…

(Christian Solidarity Worldwide) — Christian families in Chiapas, Mexico are being forced to participate in an upcoming syncretic Roman Catholic festival or face illegal fines for the fourth consecutive year. The sixteen families,…

(ChinaAid) XIAMEN — On April 26, Xiamen City Jimei District People’s Court issued a summons to Yang Xibo, the minister of Xiamen Xunsiding Church. The notice required that Minister Yang Xiao should attend his hearing for his penalty and…

Taraba state, Nigeria. (Uwe Dedering, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorism by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stretched into Taraba state, Nigeria for the first time on April 19, killing…