Jul 30, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in Nigeria have killed six pastors and kidnapped 27 Christians of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in the past seven months, according to an ECWA report. Among...
Jul 27, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic extremists on Monday night (July 25) kidnapped 36 people from a predominantly Christian village outside the city of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria. The house-to-house abductions came after the...
Jul 25, 2022 | News & Stories
July 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Severe persecution of Hmong Christians is underway in Nghe An Province in Vietnam. In the central Vietnam province, officials vying with each other to create “Christian-free zones” operate “with no conscience or humanity,” as if...
Jul 25, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in eastern Uganda died on July 10 from head injuries sustained in an attack by Muslim extremists the previous week, sources said. Robert Bwenje had accompanied Assistant Pastor Ambrose Mugisha of Elim...
Jul 24, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 20, 2022 (Morning Star News) – The body of one of two Catholic priests kidnapped on Friday (July 15) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, was recovered Tuesday morning (July 19), sources said. The Rev. John Mark Cheitnum was director of communications of the...
Jul 19, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 19, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Gunmen in northeast Nigeria shot a pastor and killed his sons in one attack and killed a Christian engineering instructor in another this month, sources said. Near Mubi town in Islamic terrorist-plagued Adamawa...
Jul 11, 2022 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, July 11, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Police in Darfur Region, Sudan have arrested four Christians under a law against apostasy that was annulled two years ago, according to local reports. Police on June 28 arrested the Christians from the Sudanes...
Jul 11, 2022 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 11, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian bicycle mechanic in Lahore, Pakistan was sentenced to death last week on baseless charges of blasphemy, his lawyer said. Attorney Riaz Anjum said that in 2017 Muhammad Irfan had asked Ashfaq Masih not...
Jul 11, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda killed him on Sunday (July 3), a witness said. Simolya Latifu of Molu village, Kasasira Sub-County, Kibuku District was...
Jul 1, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, July 1, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Nearly a month after an attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, the number killed and the identity of the assailants remain unclear, though the church held a funeral service for “over 40” victims. The...
Jun 14, 2022 | News & Stories
June 13, 2022 (Morning Star News) – The convicted killer of Archbishop Arsanious Wadid in Alexandria, Egypt was sentenced to death on Saturday (June 11), according to Copts-United. Nehru Abdel Moneim Tawfiq was sentenced to death after a long session in which the...
Jun 9, 2022 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A mentally ill Christian jailed since March 2019 on a charge of blasphemy, punishable by death, has been granted bail, sources said. Stephen Masih was arrested on March 11, 2019 after a Muslim mob burst into his...