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...
Oct 11, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 10, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants killed three Christians in an attack on a village of Chibok County, northeast Nigeria on Tuesday (Oct. 4) that wounded dozens of others and burned homes, sources said. The terrorists...
Oct 7, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two evangelists on Sept. 24 sustained deep knife wounds after leading several Muslims to Christ at debates on Islam and Christianity in eastern Uganda, sources said. Andrew Dikusooka, 35, and 26-year-old Ronald...
Oct 5, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman in northeast Nigeria is on trial after being held incommunicado for more than four months on blasphemy charges for forwarding a WhatsApp message, sources said. Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, 45, was arrested...
Oct 5, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 4, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Uganda upset with a father of four for converting to Christianity beat him and destroyed his home, and a week later a 52-year-old convert in a neighboring district also suffered injuries that left her...
Oct 3, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Sept. 25) killed two Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria after Islamic State terrorists allegedly killed two others in the city of Kano on Saturday (Sept. 24), sources said....
Sep 29, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A 23-year-old Muslim woman in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity on Sept. 18 was poisoned to death that night, sources said. Namata Habiiba attended a church service on Sept. 18 at the invitation of a...
Sep 28, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Continuing attacks earlier this month in Benue state, Nigeria, suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed dozens of Christians on Friday (Sept. 23) and Wednesday (Sept. 21), sources said. The...
Sep 25, 2022 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, September 23, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Christians in eastern India suspect a church member’s Hindu family killed him last month for refusing to renounce his faith, sources said. In West Bengal state’s Gobindapur village, Jhargram District, Hindu relatives...
Sep 22, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 22, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Saturday (Sept. 17) abducted dozens of Christians from a church service in northwest Nigeria, less than a week after kidnapping nearly 60 members of the same denomination in the...
Sep 21, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 21, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed three Christians in Benue state, Nigeria on Sunday (Sept. 18), after slaughtering at least 22 others in the same area in past three weeks, sources said. The...