Aug 22, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Saturday night (Aug. 19) charged a Christian with blasphemy for uploading on TikTok a video of content that last week led to attacks on Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala more than...
Aug 22, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, August 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A court in Indonesia last week sentenced a Muslim to three months in jail for halting a Christian worship service. Sources said reducing the charge from blasphemy to disrupting a worship service, combined with...
Aug 19, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 18, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Instigated by mosque leaders, Muslim mobs on Wednesday (Aug. 16) burned 20 church buildings and ransacked Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala, Pakistan after a Muslim framed two Christians in a false...
Aug 15, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, August 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Mobs in northern Indonesia this month blocked a church from its Sunday service venue in one town and damaged a worship building under construction in another, sources said. In Riau Islands Province, about 30...
Aug 12, 2023 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 11, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in central India on July 26 beat a Christian educator and filed baseless charges against him of human trafficking and fraudulent conversion of eight Christian students he was escorting to a Bible...
Aug 1, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 1, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims threw stones at a pastor in eastern Uganda and beat him unconscious as he spoke at a funeral using both the Bible and the Koran, he said from his hospital bed. Pastor Davidson Okirori, 39, said he...
Jul 28, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in eastern Uganda on July 9 killed his wife for converting to Christianity that morning, a relative said. Amina Nanfuka, 31, had returned from a medical check-up in Kampala and a visit to a worship service...
Jul 25, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A judge is allowing a Catholic to be charged with blasphemy under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law, which his attorney said is “illegal and illogical.” Attorney Rana Abdul Hameed said Lahore Anti-Terrorism Judge Abher...
Jul 21, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (July 16) killed six Christians in Benue state, Nigeria, the latest of 37 Christians slain the past three weeks in the state, sources said. The assailants arrived on...
Jul 20, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A third accusation of blasphemy in less than a month compelled Christians fearful of Islamic retribution to flee their homes in an eastern city in Pakistan this week, sources said. Muslim crowds including members...
Jul 17, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, July 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – As police looked on, a group of Muslims in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, on July 2 asked why a church should be present in a Muslim-majority area as they broke up its worship service, a video shows. The...
Jul 14, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 14, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Tuesday (July 11) kept a Christian charged with blasphemy from appearing at his bail hearing, compelling a judge to bow to pressure from a crowd of slogan-shouting Muslims and deny his...