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...
Jul 13, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 13, 2023 (Morning Star News) – About two weeks after a 22-year-old Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, villagers on Saturday (July 8) killed him for leaving Islam, sources said. Abudu Amisi of Kasanvu village, Pallisa District was...
Jul 12, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 12, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Saturday (July 8) arrested a Christian for allegedly sharing a post on Facebook even though his village’s Islamic cleric and other Muslims denied that it amounted to blasphemy, his brother...
Jul 6, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, July 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Christians broke into joyful celebration when local officials in East Jakarta, Indonesia removed the seal on their church building on June 26, three months after it was closed. Citing lack of a permit, the East...
Jul 4, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 3, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed 11 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria last week, while 20 others were slain in neighboring Taraba state, sources said. Continuing a recent spate of attacks on...
Jul 4, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 4, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan charged a Christian with blasphemy on Friday (June 30) after he posted Bible verses on Facebook that infuriated Muslims, causing dozens of Christian families in a village near Sargodha city to...
Jul 3, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 3, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian family in Lahore, Pakistan is seeking justice and protection after four Muslims abducted, gang-raped and killed a widow for refusing to convert to Islam and marry the primary suspect, sources said. In...
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...