Masab Hassan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas leader who became a Christian and spied for Israel will be granted political asylum after the Department of Homeland Security dropped its objections, Worthy News learned late Wednesday, June 30.
Church leaders in India on Wednesday, June 30, welcomed a seven year jail sentence for a leader of an influential Hindu party who was seen as the mastermind behind anti-Christian violence in India’s eastern state of Orissa that killed scores of people in 2008.
Hungary’s parliament has elected the country’s new president, amid opposition concerns he will be too accommodating to plans of the ruling center right Fidesz Party, which include changing the nation’s constitution.
A Christian woman remained in hospital Monday, June 28, after she was beaten and briefly abducted on the orders of a prominent Pakistani Muslim legislator “because Christians didn’t vote” for him, family and police said.
Lebanese security forces prepared to crackdown on Islamic insurgents Friday, June 25, after threatening leaflets were found calling on Christians to leave a key port city and a bomb blast that killed at least one person in a predominantly Christian town.
Over 20 Afghan Christians have been detained in Afghanistan after high-level leaders called for the arrest and execution of converts to Christianity in the Islamic nation, an advocacy group said Friday, June 25.
United States President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports citing senior officials.
Iran has warned of a military confrontation with Israel and the United States after at least eleven American warships, including an aircraft carrier, and an Israeli vessel passed through the Suez Canal, the largest fleet of ships to cross the volatile, strategic waterway, in recent years.
Pope Benedict XVI has urged the creation of a “true world political authority” to “guarantee the protection of the environment” and to manage the global economy, Worthy News learned on Monday, June 21.
Christian rights activists marked the 65th birthday of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Saturday, June 19, and her supporters gathered in the country’s main city Rangoon, amid renewed calls for her release from house arrest and an end to military rule.
Iran’s security forces detained eight members of a nationwide Protestant church movement in Tehran Friday, June 19, as part of a government crackdown on the growing number of Christians in the strict Islamic nation, a Christian leader told Worthy News and its news partner BosNewsLife.
American President Barack Obama will receive “absolute power” to shut down the Internet, according to proposed U.S. Senate legislation seen by Worthy News Friday, June 18.
Chinese church leader Wang Dao, was released on Sunday after being imprisoned on May 9, 2010 according to report obtained by Worthy News on June 17th.
A Christian is serving 15 years in a Moroccan jail for evangelism, a Christian rights groups said, while American Christian leaders praised Morocco Thursday, June 17, for its “long history of friendship and religious cooperation.”
Kyrgyz Christians were risking their lives Thursday, June 17, to help and shelter Uzbek believers in southern Kyrgystan, where ethnic clashes killed at least 190 people, injured 1,800 others and uprooted some 400,000 residents, Christian aid workers said.
Pakistani police freed a Christian girl who was kidnapped and raped by five Muslim militants with the apparent support from “religious leaders”, but the suspects escaped, her family said Wednesday, June 16.
Tensions remained high in Kenya Tuesday, June 15, after two bombs rocked a Christian prayer rally opposing a draft constitution, killing at least six people and injuring 100 others.
Masab Hassan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas leader who became a Christian, is facing a deportation hearing on June 30 in San Diego because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security views him as “a threat to America’s national security”, Worthy News learned Monday, June 14.
Impoverished frail parents were still awaiting justice Monday, June 14, for the death of their son who they and Christian investigators said died of “mental and physical torture” while in police custody in the city of Lahore.
Slovakia’s president has requested Prime Minister Robert Fico to form a government, despite a center-right opposition coalition winning more seats in Saturday’s parliamentary vote. President Ivan Gasparovic said Sunday, June 13, he would will give Fico the first chance to form a Cabinet, because his left-leaning party won the most votes.