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France issues terror warning as eight injured in school shooting
France has issued a terror attack warning after eight people were injured in a school shooting in the southern town of Grasse on Thursday.

Christians denied vital aid as famine sweeps sub-Saharan Africa
Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa are being denied access to vital aid as a famine affecting millions sweeps across the region.

'Gay moment' in Beauty and the Beast will mean boycott, claims conservative group
A conservative Christian group says its supporters are far less likely to see a hit movie than they would have been because of a passing reference to homosexuality.

Christianity on the rise in Bangladesh as tens of thousands of Muslims are turning away from Allah to embrace Jesus
Christianity is making such significant gains in one Muslim-majority nation in South Asia that local evangelists are now envisioning the day when their country would become a Christian nation.

'The migrant is a gift': Mexican bishops launch campaign defying Trump's immigration policy
Mexican bishops have launched a campaign titled 'the migrant is a gift' on social media, in defiance of the immigration policies of President Trump.

Pakistani Christian asylum seekers face pressure to leave Thailand
The Thai government is planning to cancel bail for all of Bangkok's male asylum seekers, forcing them - including many Christians - to move to detention centres immediately.

'God is great', cry Islamist extremists as they shoot dead a Christian mum and son, wound husband
Islamic extremists have shot dead a Christian woman and her son and seriously wounded her husband in Somalia, sources told Morning Star News.

Ethiopia famine: 'Pray God touches the hearts of the nations'
The scale of the current drought affecting Ethiopia is so much bigger than anything we've seen before, according to Tearfund's country representative.

Ma'agan Michael sails again: boat from biblical times discovered off coast of Israel to be 'relaunched'
A famous ship in Israel that sank off the country's coast 2,500 years ago is being 'relaunched' 30 years after the shipwreck was discovered and removed from the water.

Samaritans' Purse workers kidnapped by rebels in South Sudan have been released
Eight kidnapped Christian charity workers in South Sudan who were taken by rebels earlier this week have now been released.

Sir Mo Farah says he is 'completely devastated' by East Africa crisis as charities launch major appeal
Sir Mo Farah is among those supporting an urgent appeal by charities to help the millions of people who face starvation caused by conflicts and droughts in East Africa.

Iran arrests newly baptised Christian mother and her son for their faith, seizes Bibles in crackdown
Iranian government agents have arrested two newly baptised Christiansâa mother and her sonâseizing their Bibles and other Christian books.

Many Asian Christian women working as maids in Mideast suffer abuse, treated like slaves by their Arab 'owners'
Many Asian Christian women are being treated as slaves as they work as nannies and housemaids in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Arabian Peninsula.

Trump envoy to meet Palestinian President as US tries to kickstart peace talks
Donald Trump's Middle East envoy will meet with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow, after spending five hours with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The Palestinian ballet star who is fighting ISIS with dance
A Palestinian ballet dancer has won wide acclaim using dance in a defiant stance against ISIS in the Middle East.

'I have their blood with me': new documentary charts plight of Syria's many missing men, women and children
A hard-hitting documentary broadcast next week will lay out the damning case of Syria's missing: tens of thousands of men, women and children who have been disappeared into secret detention centres.