Sep 4, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 2, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian posted in Yola, northeast Nigeria, as part of his youth service corps duty was killed on Aug. 26 in what was suspected as a targeted attack, sources said. Samaila Sabo Awudu was assaulted by at least...
Aug 31, 2022 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians accused of blasphemy, including one who has spent four years in jail, have obtained bail from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sources said. Following the release on bail earlier last week of another...
Aug 29, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen in Plateau state, Nigeria on Saturday (Aug. 27) shot and killed a Christian woman as she cleaned her church building, sources said. Lyop Dalyop was sweeping and cleaning the Church of...
Aug 24, 2022 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 24, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 23) granted bail to a Christian in a blasphemy case, with one of the justices expressing concern over blatant misuse of the law, the attorney...
Aug 24, 2022 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 23, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Refusing to review evidence from a Christian couple trying to recover their 12-year-old daughter after she was allegedly kidnapped and forced to convert and marry, a judge in Pakistan last week denied them...
Aug 22, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 22, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Islamic terrorists in southern Nigeria kidnapped four nuns on Sunday (Aug. 21), three days after suspected Fulani herdsmen shot a Christian attorney to death in the country’s northwest, sources said. Benedict Azza,...
Aug 21, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 17, 2022 (Morning Star News) – After more than 20 Christians lost their lives to terrorist attacks in two areas of Taraba state, Nigeria in the first half of August, a Catholic teacher on Sunday (Aug. 14) was kidnapped from a church site,...
Aug 16, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda last month cut off the hand of a 42-year-old father who left Islam to become a Christian in June, sources said. Musa John Kasadah of Maumo village, Luuka District was ambushed on...
Aug 13, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 10, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim terrorists in northern Nigeria killed an 86-year-old Christian in his home on Aug. 2 and kidnapped two others who were later released, likely after ransom payments, sources said. The gunmen killed...
Aug 8, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A month after a Christian was killed in Kiboga District, Uganda, a pastor in the same district fears for his life following death threats from Muslim extremists, he said. Pastor Godfrey Ssemujju, who oversees 130...
Aug 8, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on July 29 came to the home of an evangelist who had held open-air events in eastern Uganda and killed him, sources said. Cut with a sharp instrument that left his head and neck with deep wounds,...
Aug 4, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (July 31) killed seven Christians, including four children, in an attack in Plateau state, Nigeria, following months of violence in neighboring Taraba state, sources said....