May 18, 2023 | News & Stories
May 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Iranian authorities released two Christian leaders from prison last week after a judge broke with common judicial practice in the country and ruled that home church participation was not illegal, sources said. Throwing out a 2020...
May 16, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Saturday (May 13) released on bail a Christian woman charged under a blasphemy statute that calls for life in prison, her attorney said. Lazar Allah Rakha told Morning Star News that Arifwala...
May 8, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A former Islamic teacher remains hospitalized after Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda on Tuesday (May 2) beat him unconscious for converting to Christianity, sources said. Shaquru Ndifuna, 33, was receiving treatment...
May 2, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 2, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on April 16 killed 12 people in attacks on predominantly Christian villages of central Nigeria that continued until April 19, sources said. The assailants burned down the house of a...
May 1, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 1, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian college student was killed in northern Uganda on April 14 for sharing about Christ with Muslims, a fellow student said. Jeremiah Mwanga, a second-year student at the Uganda Christian School of Professionals...
Apr 28, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, April 28, 2023 (Morning Star News) – In 11 days of attacks through Wednesday (April 26), Fulani herdsmen killed 18 people and wounded others in predominantly Christian villages of Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The herdsmen attacked 11...
Apr 25, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, April 25, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists killed a pastor in northeast Nigeria, and terrorists in the country’s middle belt state of Benue killed 134 Christians the first week of April, sources said. The Rev. Yakubu Shuaibu of the Church...
Apr 25, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian widow and a Muslim gardener were arrested in Pakistan this month on blasphemy charges after they were accused of intentionally burning papers containing koranic verses, attorneys said. The accusations...
Apr 25, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists this month killed a Christian who was effective in leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda, sources said. Engineer Herbert of Sironko District was stabbed to death in the Namakwekwe area of...
Apr 25, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists exploded a fuel bomb during a church’s Good Friday night service in western Uganda on April 7, sources said. The explosion at NABI Pentecostal church in Biguli, Kamwenge District damaged part of...
Apr 25, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, April 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed 33 Christians in an attack Saturday night through the early hours of Sunday (April 15-16) in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Area residents said herdsmen alongside other armed...
Apr 7, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, April 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Local officials sealed shut a church building in West Java Province, Indonesia on Saturday (April 1), two weeks after Muslims intruded into a worship service and demanded its closure, church leaders said. The...