By Joseph C. DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent JAKARTA, Indonesia (Worthy News)-- The 13 suspects in the September attack on two leaders of the Batak Christian Protestant Church will now go on trial after police gave their completed case files to the prosecution. The prosecutors' office declared that everything it received was in complete order. In addition to handing over the files and evidence, police also turned-over custody of all the suspects, including the suspended leader of the Islamic Defenders Front in ... Read More

By Joseph C. DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent MINSK, Belarus (Worthy News)-- A pastor in Belarus was fined for alleged unsanitary conditions at his church's summer Bible school while another church in Minsk must exist without a legal bank account. Belarusian Pastor Nikolai Borichevsky of Grace of Jesus Pentecostal Church in Krupki, paid a fine of 700,000 Belarusian Roubles for for food served to children at its summer Bible school supposedly under unsanitary conditions. When health inspector Aleksandr Khodorovich and an official from the Commission for ... Read More

By Joseph C. DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent JOS, Nigeria (Worthy News)-- Fulani Muslims were blamed for a series of attacks on the Christian communities in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The villagers of those communities are all ethnic Irigwe Christians. According to Stefanos Foundation, gunmen raided Ranwianku the night of Oct. 25, attacking villagers with rifle fire and machetes in spite of the presence of an army barracks about a mile away; homes were burned and cattle killed. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen spoke Fulani; all ethnic Fulani ... Read More

Isaiah 10:15 Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood! One constant pitfall we must watch for is taking credit for something that God does in or through us, or using the gifts and callings of God for self-exaltation. In that ... Read More

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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent with Worthy News Asia Service ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)-- Relatives of a Pakistani Christian mother sentenced to death for "insulting" Islam's Prophet Muhammad have filed an appeal against her conviction, Worthy News established Monday, November 15. The appeal comes after a lower court in the town of Nankana, around 75 kilometers (45 miles) from the city of Lahore in Punjab province, sentenced 45-year-old Asia Bibi to death for blasphemy. Bibi was also slapped with a fine of about ... Read More

By Jawad Mazhar, Worthy News Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan KARACHI, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)-- A Christian worker, his Muslim wife and their baby remained in hiding Sunday, November 14, nearly a month after some 20 armed Muslim gunmen allegedly attacked their rented house in an area of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. Shahbaz Javed told Worthy News that the armed mob "invaded" the home in Gulzar Colony on October 16 to protest against his marriage with Mehwish Naz, a Muslim. He said the attack began ... Read More