Family Sprayed with Acid for Leaving Islam

Family Sprayed with Acid for Leaving Islam

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Upset over conversions to Christianity, hardline Muslims in an area of eastern Uganda this month sprayed a newly Christian family with acid and beat a former mosque leader, sources said. In Intonko village,...
Young Woman Who Left Islam Killed in Iraq

Young Woman Who Left Islam Killed in Iraq

March 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A young woman preparing to be baptized in Erbil, Iraq last week was instead killed in a possible “honor” killing for converting to Christianity, with Muslim family members reportedly suspected, according to local media. The body of...
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Convert found murdered

Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Convert found murdered

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 10, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A church security guard was killed in the kidnapping of a Roman Catholic priest at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday (March 8) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. The security guard, identified only as Luka, was killed in...
Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India

Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India

NEW DELHI, March 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests, sources said. Accusing...
Hardline Muslims Kill Evangelist at Open-Air Event

Hardline Muslims Kill Evangelist at Open-Air Event

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hardline Muslims who grew furious at the preaching of a speaker at an open-air evangelistic event last week in eastern Uganda beat him to death and burned his body, sources said. John Michael Okero was quoting verses...
Church Building Locked, Leaders Arrested in Sudan

Church Building Locked, Leaders Arrested in Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan, March 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut, sources said. Hardline Muslims locked the building of the...
Iran: Nine converts acquitted by Appeal Court

Iran: Nine converts acquitted by Appeal Court

NEW DELHI, March 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said. The eight assailants,...
Iran: Judge pressured to deliver hasty verdict

Iran: Judge pressured to deliver hasty verdict

ABUJA, Nigeria, February 28, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday (Feb. 25) killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents said. Besides the Christians killed in the...