Sep 15, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on Sept. 6 beat a 33-year-old evangelist to death for leading Muslims to faith in Christ at an event in eastern Uganda, sources said. After the evangelistic event in Kituuti town, Philip Bere...
Sep 14, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 14, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Gunmen early Wednesday (Sept. 13) kidnapped a pastor and two other Christians in Jos East County, Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Usman Umaru of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) was...
Sep 13, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 13, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed 10 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, where 27 others were slain in August, sources said. The terrorists attacked Kulben village, Mangu County,...
Sep 12, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 12, 2023 (Morning Star News) – The three young children of a Christian couple jailed on baseless charges of desecrating the Koran in Lahore, Pakistan last week have no relatives to care for them and are extremely upset, a rights advocate...
Sep 11, 2023 | News & Stories
. “They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states. Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian...
Sep 8, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night (Sept. 7) in a failed kidnapping attempt, sources said. In an attack at...
Sep 5, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 4, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A pastor was shot and wounded by hardline Muslims on Sunday evening (Sept. 3) in Jaranwala, Pakistan a week after Islamist slogans were written on the walls of his church building, sources said. The Rev....
Sep 2, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 2, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Church and rights leaders in Pakistan are demanding an investigation into anti-Christian rioting in Jaranwala amid illegal arrests of area Christians and a police claim of a “foreign conspiracy” to create...
Aug 31, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 31, 2023 (Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for...
Aug 31, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 30, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were kidnapped on Friday (Aug. 25) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, two days after gunmen described as terrorists killed a Baptist pastor in another area of the state, sources said. Terrorists on Friday...
Aug 24, 2023 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in India have issued questionnaires to at least 40 churches in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state seeking information that Christians fear will be used by Hindu extremists to attack them, sources said. The...
Aug 24, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 23, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said. Robert Faisali Miya, a...