Sep 18, 2022 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, September 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A court in Sudan on Sept. 8 dismissed apostasy charges against four Christians who were threatened with the death penalty unless they recanted, sources said. Judge Ibrahim Hamza dismissed the apostasy charges...
Sep 14, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 14, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Sept. 11) killed a Christian security guard as they abducted a pastor in central Nigeria and wounded the church leader’s wife, sources said. James Ngyang, a member of...
Sep 10, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists killed five Christian workers by throwing them off a boat into central Uganda’s Lake Kyoga on Aug. 10, sources said. The evangelists from End Time Word Ministry church were traveling from...
Sep 7, 2022 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (Sept. 1) killed six Christians in central Nigeria, and the next day animists attacked a night prayer service in the country’s southwest, area residents and officials said. The...
Sep 5, 2022 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Somali pastor of a secret fellowship in Kenya is still recovering from an infected wound after attacks on him, his wife and child for leaving Islam, he said. The 33-year-old pastor, who was still in pain this...
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,...