Muslims in Indonesia End Church’s Meetings in Home

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Local residents object to use of house for worship. By Our Indonesia Correspondent SURABAYA, Indonesia, March 22, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Muslim residents objecting to house-church worship in western Indonesia on Sunday (March 17) compelled the pastor to discontinue using her home for services, sources said. On the western tip of Java Island, dozens of Muslim residents gathered outside the … Read More

Muslim Extremists Kill Christian Convert in Kenya

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Assailants injure three other evangelists from Uganda.By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on March 8 ambushed and killed an evangelist from Kenya and severely injured three others from Uganda near a town on Kenya’s border with Uganda, sources said. The four Christian workers were returning to Bugiri, Uganda after a four-day … Read More

Muslim ‘Suitor’ Kidnaps 13-Year-Old Christian Girl in Pakistan

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Muslim father fulfills threat to kidnap Christian’s daughter, dad says. By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News LAHORE, Pakistan, March 21, 2024 (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Two months after a Muslim told a Christian in Pakistan he could not stop him from taking the Christian’s 13-year-old daughter for marriage to his 28-year-old Muslim son, the girl was kidnapped on March … Read More

Christian Family in India Beaten, Separated from Children

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  Tribal villagers expel couple for refusing to renounce Christ. By Our India Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 20, 2024 (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in central India have not seen their two young children for more than a month after an attack by followers of traditional tribal religion drove them from their village for refusing to recant their … Read More

Christian Slain for Leading Muslims to Faith in Christ

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Body found with note in arabic saying he was warned. By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, March 19, 2024 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda on March 8 killed a Christian for leading Muslims to faith in Christ, sources said. Kiisa Masolo, 45, had returned to his home in Nakitiku village, Bunabuka parish, Bubeza Sub-County in Sironko … Read More

Christian, 18, Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan Wins Bail

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Former classmate accused him for not converting to Islam. By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News LAHORE, Pakistan, March 15, 2024 (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An 18-year-old Christian charged with blasphemy was released on bail on Thursday (March 14), saying his faith sustained him during a week of solitary confinement. Ashbeel Ghauri was arrested on March 6 after a former … Read More

Officials in Egypt Abet Kidnappers of Christian Woman, Father Says

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Muslim Brotherhood ring behind abduction, sources say. By Christian Daily International March 14, 2024 (Christian Daily International) – Authorities in Egypt have abetted the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Coptic Christian woman, according to a widely published expert on the Middle East and Islam. Irene Ibrahim Shehata, a 21-year-old medical student at Asyut National University, disappeared on Jan. 22 … Read More

Christian in Pakistan Accused of Blasphemy for Refusing to Convert, He Says

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Former classmates engaged him in religious discussion. By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News LAHORE, Pakistan, March 12, 2024 (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A former classmate of an 18-year-old Christian in Pakistan accused him of blasphemy after failing to convert him to Islam, impeding the accused’s college studies and his family’s hopes for a better future, sources said. Police arrested … Read More

Iran: Prayer for Iranian-Armenian pastor in prison

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Iran: Prayer for Iranian-Armenian pastor in prison Iranian-Armenian pastor Anooshavan Avedian (61) is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin Prison, Tehran. He was arrested along with two Christian converts when around 30 intelligence agents raided a private Christian gathering in Narmak, North Tehran on 21 August 2020. In April 2022 Judge Iman Afshari, head of the 26th Branch … Read More

Christian Girl, 10, Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted in Pakistan

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Parents fear she could be trafficked. By Christian Daily International-Morning Star News LAHORE, Pakistan, March 11, 2024 (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – The Christian parents of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan who was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam last month fear she could be sold to sex traffickers, sources said. A month after Laiba Suhail was abducted from her … Read More