Turkey captured the sister of dead Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday in the northern Syrian town of Azaz, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, and is interrogating her husband and daughter-in-law who were also detained.
Crisis grows in West Africa. Who cares?
Two years after the abduction of pastor Raymond Koh, Voice of the Martyrs is urging Christians worldwide to demand the Malaysian government reveal the truth about his mysterious disappearance.
Demi Lovato may have posted an apology for her Israel visit last week on her Instagram account, but her mother, Dianna De La Garza, who accompanied the singing star on the trip, posted on Instagram that she would “unapologetically go again one day.”
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor from the Church of Iran denomination who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin prison in Tehran, began a hunger strike on 23 September to protest against his children being prohibited from continuing with their education.
The U.S. President may be ready to give up on Syria, but a congressional committee says “no.” On Tuesday, the Syria Study Group issued an 80-page report urging U.S. leaders to maintain an active presence and military pressure in Syria.
JOS, Nigeria, September 27, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen this month kidnapped and killed a pastor’s wife in north-central Nigeria’s Kaduna state three days after suspected herdsmen killed a Baptist pastor in another part of the state, sources said.
The United States led more than 30 countries on Tuesday in condemning what it called China’s “horrific campaign of repression” against Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang at an event on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly that was denounced by China.
In the countries of North Africa where only a scant few have heard the Gospel, Muslims are taught that Christians worship three gods including the Virgin Mary, and they routinely hear that the Bible is riddled with major textual corruptions.
If you think packing up and moving your home is hard, try moving a national capital.
Indonesia’s got some big plans. FMI’s Bruce Allen explains, “On Monday, August 26, President Joko Widodo announced that the government plans to shift the capital away from the megacity of Jakarta that’s on the island of Java, and put it on a totally new island: the island of […]
More than two million Muslims converged on Mecca this year on the last day of the Hajj, an annual Muslim pilgrimage to the Islamic holy site and a pillar of the Islamic faith.
