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,...
Jan 25, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed five Christians early Sunday morning (Jan. 22) in northeast Nigeria, following the slaughter of 12 Christians on Friday (Jan. 20) in the country’s Middle Belt, sources said. In...
Jan 23, 2023 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 23, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim militants were suspected in the bombing of a Protestant church baptism service in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that killed at least 14 worshippers on Jan. 15, officials said. While DRC officials...
Jan 20, 2023 | News & Stories
SURABAYA, Indonesia, January 19, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church in Indonesia on Jan. 8 was prohibited from holding a Sunday service in front of a city hall building, where it had gone after losing its prior worship venue in a mall, sources said. Following...
Jan 20, 2023 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 18, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Terrorists attacked a church service in northwestern Nigeria on Sunday (Jan. 15), shot and wounded the pastor and kidnapped 25 congregation members, sources said. The assailants stormed into the morning worship...
Jan 17, 2023 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – His voice shaky, Saleem Masih said his family has been living in fear since Nov. 29, when his son was arrested on false accusations of blasphemy – which can carry the death penalty in Pakistan. Officials of the...