Feb 16, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 16, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Plans to burn several church buildings in central India came to an end on Sunday (Feb. 12) after officers arrested three Hindu extremists, but not before they had set one structure ablaze, police said. Pastor Mahesh...
Feb 15, 2023 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – An evangelist in western Sudan has gone into a hiding following attempted attacks by Muslim extremists, he said. Ahmad Adam Mohamad, 49, of North Darfur state went into a hiding after his Muslim uncles accused...
Feb 14, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 13, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Arif Gill said he lost hope of finding his 15-year-old daughter – abducted by a 60-year-old Muslim who forcibly married her and converted her to Islam – until police in Pakistan finally registered a case after...
Feb 10, 2023 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 10, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India remains in jail after more than three months despite winning bail because Hindu extremists filed new false charges against him, his wife said. “We are going through troubled times, and we...
Feb 9, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim landowner in Pakistan on Monday (Feb. 6) beat a Catholic farm laborer to death, claiming he had stolen oranges from his orchard, the victim’s family said. The killing follows the shooting death last...
Feb 9, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, February 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian apologist whose comparisons of Christianity with Islam were widely disseminated on his blog and YouTube channel has disappeared since his arrest in December, sources said. Nothing has been heard...
Feb 7, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday (Feb. 1) threw acid on a 19-year-old Christian woman for refusing his pressure to enter into relationship and convert to Islam, sources said. Sunita Masih, who lives...
Jan 31, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 31, 2023 (Morning Star News) – After authorities in Nigeria ignored warnings that thousands of cattlemen were arriving in Benue state, suspected herdsmen on Saturday (Jan. 28) attacked two villages there and killed 12 Christians, sources said....
Jan 31, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 30, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church pastor in northeast Nigeria was slain on Thursday (Jan. 26), and anti-Christian violence continued to grow in the southern part of the country with the killing of two Christians in Delta state, sources...
Jan 27, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church pastor and three other Christians were killed in Sudan on Monday (Jan. 23) when suspected Islamic extremists shot them to death, an area source said. Four of the victims’ traveling companions were wounded...
Jan 27, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s lower house of parliament has passed legislation to make the country’s blasphemy laws stricter even as their blatant misuse again came to light in a threat to falsely charge a Christian woman. The...
Jan 25, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 25, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Five Christians were killed on Jan. 17 in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, while a church leader in the southeastern state of Enugu said Christians there were “under siege.” In southern Kaduna state’s Zonkwa town,...