Dec 21, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, December 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – With an increase in blasphemy cases in Indonesia and arrests based on Islamic fatwas and mob pressure, rights advocates are calling for laws to be amended or ended. The number of charges registered under...
Dec 21, 2023 | News & Stories
BAUCHI, Nigeria, December 20, 2023 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – With a decades-old history of Islamic extremist attacks, Nigeria’s Bauchi state is home to a Christian community that continues to suffer oppression and killings, a long-time pastor...
Dec 16, 2023 | News & Stories
BAUCHI, Nigeria, December 15, 2023 (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) – A Christian woman charged under Nigeria’s blasphemy law has been released on bail after 19 months, but she faces the threat of 10 years in prison for allegedly sharing a social...
Dec 2, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 1, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Thursday (Nov. 30) killed seven Christians in attacks on two villages in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The assailants attacked Puka and Dinter villages in Mangu...
Dec 1, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 30, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A funeral was held in southwest Nigeria on Saturday (Nov. 25) for a pastor’s wife shot to death in Taraba state a week earlier, sources said. Oluwakemi Moses, wife of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)...
Nov 29, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 29, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan this month granted bail to a Christian falsely charged with blasphemy, but he and his family have separated and gone into hiding amid threats to their lives, sources said. Haroon Shahzad,...
Nov 27, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Friday (Nov. 24) attacked villages in Taraba state, Nigeria, killing at least 10 Christians, sources said. The assailants attacked an area from the Yangtu Special...
Nov 24, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – The father of a 20-year-old Christian who was gunned down in Pakistan this month said the confessed killer was driven by a strong hatred for Christians and Jews. Farhan Ul Qamar was shot to death in his house...
Nov 22, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians in eastern Uganda were hospitalized after hardline Muslims beat them for their presentation at a religious dialogue, one of the victims said. Musa Kirongosa, 32, and Swidiki Buyinza, 27, of an...
Nov 21, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Armed assailants in Kaduna state, Nigeria on Friday (Nov. 17) killed a pastor and kidnapped his wife, sources said. The Rev. Joshua Amako Maraya of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), 2, in Damakasuwa town...
Nov 21, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Lahore, Pakistan were shocked to learn on Saturday (Nov. 18) that a church elder confessed to setting fire to their worship structure after initially blaming it on a Muslim extremist group,...
Nov 20, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 19, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim gunned down a 20-year-old Christian in Pakistan on Nov. 9, the latest case of a religious minority victimized for unknown reasons with police slow to act, sources said. In Talwandi Inayat Khan village,...