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,...
Nov 18, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A pastor kidnapped on Saturday (Nov. 11) in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi was killed on Tuesday (Nov. 14) after church members paid a ransom for his release, sources said. The Rev. David Musa of the Evangelical...
Nov 18, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church building was set on fire in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday (Nov. 16), a month after the pastor received a letter threatening the congregation for worshipping too loudly, sources said. The blaze destroyed...
Nov 16, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – As he awaits prison after a wrongful conviction for proselytizing, Pastor Keshab Raj Acharya fears his case will set a precedent for authorities in Nepal to incarcerate other Christians, he said. The 35-year-old...
Nov 8, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda has been hospitalized with serious burns after her Muslim husband discovered she had converted to Christianity and set her on fire, area sources said. Hajara Namwase, a 32-year-old mother...
Nov 6, 2023 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, November 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – At least two Christian buildings were bombed last week amid fighting between rival military factions in Sudan, sources said. On Wednesday (Nov. 1) a Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) building in...
Nov 2, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 2, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a village in northern Nigeria on early Tuesday (Oct. 31), killing one Christian, wounding two and kidnapping 25 others, sources said. In southern Kaduna state’s village of Ungwan...