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...
Nov 1, 2022 | News & Stories
October 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians imprisoned in Iran for their church leadership roles were released a few days after a fire broke out in Tehran’s Evin Prison on Oct. 15, but rights advocates were mystified about why they were freed. Pastor Naser...
Oct 28, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed two Christians in north-central Nigeria on Friday (Oct. 21) after slaughtering 13 others in two prior attacks, sources said. The assailants attacked Gidan...
Oct 27, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen last week killed more than 70 Christians in a village in central Nigeria, prompting state officials to state that lack of government protection means citizens must defend themselves, sources said....
Oct 23, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 23, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two evangelists in eastern Uganda were beaten and slashed with knives after leading several Muslims to Christ, sources said. Earlier this month Robert Okia, a 43-year-old father of six children, and Wilberforce...
Oct 19, 2022 | News & Stories
October 17, 2022 (Morning Star News) – When authorities in Iran summoned a Christian couple in Tehran on Aug. 13, the house-church members supposed it concerned the return of their confiscated belongings. Instead, Homayoun Zhaveh and his wife Sara Ahmadi were detained...