Dec 21, 2022 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, December 21, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A high-level official in western Indonesia on Saturday (Dec. 17) announced an agreement with a multi-faith body that prohibits Christmas celebrations in a district at sites without government approval. The...
Dec 21, 2022 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, December 20, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A man suspected of being a Muslim extremist in the ranks of the Sudanese military on Friday (Dec. 16) burned down a church building in eastern Sudan, sources said. The 20-year-old building of a 100-member...
Dec 19, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 19, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in central Uganda lured a Christian teacher to his home by forcing his wife to call and tell him she was ill, then the intruders beat him and his son, the father said. Abdu Muyinga and his young...
Dec 6, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 4, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on Nov. 20 burned down a house where a cell fellowship was meeting in eastern Uganda, a week after Muslims in another area caned two converts, sources said. Arafah Senyange, 28, and his brother...
Dec 1, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 1, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen in southwestern Nigeria last week kidnapped Christian workers taking a bus to a wedding, while another group of Christians was kidnapped en route to a funeral in the same state. A...
Dec 1, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in the past month killed at least 30 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria and 10 in Kaduna state, where they also demanded payment for a corpse after collecting...
Nov 29, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A group of Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda seriously wounded a pastor and his wife in an attack on a meeting at their church on Nov. 18, he said. The knife attack on an evening service of Believers’ Church in...
Nov 29, 2022 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, November 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan on Nov. 21 arrested and jailed a church leader on charges of “witchcraft” for leading a prayer meeting for his ailing mother, sources said. Pastor Abdalla Haron Sulieman was leading a...
Nov 14, 2022 | News & Stories
November 14, 2022 (Morning Star News) – The body of a pastor with an officially recognized church in Laos was found last month with signs that he was tortured and killed for his faith, area sources said. Christian leaders and police in central Laos’ Khammouane...
Nov 8, 2022 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, November 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian pastor in northern India who drives a taxi for a living didn’t think he had anything to fear when a well-mannered Sikh asked him to take a slight detour. Pastor Sukhdev Mark, 47, had dropped him off...
Nov 3, 2022 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother and her family in northern India have suffered assaults and threats since she and others were arrested from her son’s birthday party on false accusations of fraudulent conversion, her husband said....
Nov 3, 2022 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, November 2, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two local officials in Indonesia joined Islamist organizations’ call to block construction of a Christian church, triggering objections nationwide the past two months, according to published reports. In...