Jun 28, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 28, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A government concession to demands by a Muslim extremist political party to allow blasphemy charges under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws has raised fears of more injustice for those accused under the harsh...
Jun 27, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani terrorists in Plateau state, Nigeria killed more than 150 Christians in the first three weeks of June, including a church pastor, sources said. The killing of the Rev. Nichodemus Kim of the Church of Christ in...
Jun 26, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, June 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – On the evening of May 3, an ethnic Christian in northern India’s Manipur state received a call from a relative advising her to pack up and leave home with her children immediately. Manngaihlun Tombing, of the Kuki ethnic...
Jun 25, 2023 | News & Stories
June 25, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Ethnic Christians in Vietnam are bracing for potential fallout should they be blamed for recent anti-government violence. In the pre-dawn hours of June 11, four policemen, two government officials and three bystanders were killed by...
Jun 23, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, June 23, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A local official and other Muslims on Sunday (June 18) stopped worship at a house church outside Jakarta, Indonesia, and a church site in Central Java Province was temporarily blocked, according to local...
Jun 22, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Islamist terrorists on Friday night (June 16) killed at least 37 students, most of them Christians, at the dormitories of a private high school in Uganda, and kidnapped six others, sources said. Shouting the jihadist...
Jun 20, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Relatives of two brothers who accepted Christ in May beat them for leaving Islam earlier this month in eastern Uganda, sources said. Janati Tisuubira, 22, and his 33-year-old brother Ibrahim Musa Kakembo, received...
Jun 15, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Unidentified gunmen on June 7 shot a Roman Catholic priest to death in southwest Nigeria, a church spokesman said. The Rev. Charles Onomhoale Igechi was killed as he drove in the Ikhueniro area of Benin, Edo state,...
Jun 14, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 14, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on June 3 and 4 killed 46 Christians in attacks on a cluster of villages in Benue state, Nigeria, sources said. The herdsmen invaded Imande Mbakange village in the early hours of June 3, killing 28...
Jun 12, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, June 12, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A surge of ethnic violence with a growing religious component in northeastern India led to the killing on Friday (June 9) of a woman in her church building and two other Christians, sources said. The attack by ethnic...
Jun 7, 2023 | News & Stories
MANGU, Nigeria, June 7, 2023 (Morning Star News) – At least 300 Christians have been massacred in one county of Plateau state, Nigeria since mid-May, including the killing of two pastors on Sunday (June 4), sources said. In Mangu County, Fulani terrorists killed the...
Jun 6, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, June 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Having spent a month in jail on baseless charges before his release on bail, Pastor R. Kirubendran was baffled at hostilities from police, media and villagers after serving a community in northern India without problem for...