Dec 23, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Wednesday (Dec. 22) handed custody of a 14-year-old girl back to her Christian parents after she testified that she wished to return to them from a shelter home, sources said. The Sindh...
Dec 23, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Somali-born pastor in Kenya is still in severe pain after ethnic Somali Muslims in northeastern Kenya beat him on Dec. 3 for leaving Islam, sources said. The pastor, whose name is withheld for security reasons,...
Dec 21, 2021 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Terrorists with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Sunday (Dec. 19) killed 12 Christians in an attack in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, sources said. The Islamic extremist militants attacked...
Dec 14, 2021 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen who kidnapped a Christian pastor outside the city of Kaduna in northern Nigeria killed him last week after receiving ransom payments, sources said. The Rev. Dauda Bature of the First Evangelical...
Dec 13, 2021 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in northern Nigeria wounded a pregnant woman and set houses on fire on Saturday (Dec. 11) in attacks on predominantly Christian villages near the city of Kaduna, sources said. Prompt action by the...
Dec 9, 2021 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, December 8, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian convert from Islam on Dec. 1 received a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 Algerian dinars (US$716) from an appeals court on a conviction of “accepting donations...
Dec 7, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, December 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in northern India disrupted a house church service, interrogated a pastor and signalled police to arrest him and his wife on baseless charges of fraudulent conversion, sources said. Pastor Lal Chand,...
Dec 3, 2021 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christians in northwest Nigeria are living in terror after receiving letters threatening death unless they close their churches, sources said. A police spokesman said Zamfara State Police have beefed up security...
Nov 29, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians, including three children, in an attack in Plateau state, Nigeria in the early hours of Friday (Nov. 26), sources said. It was the second attack on Christians in Bassa County in...
Nov 27, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Less than a week after the U.S. removal of Nigeria’s designation as engaging in or tolerating violations of religious freedom, Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Nov. 23) killed two more Christian farmers in Plateau...
Nov 25, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists influenced by Hindu extremists in central India last month forced Christians to exhume the body of a 25-year-old man buried on relatives’ private land because they didn’t want a Christian interred in...
Nov 22, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Pakistan incarcerated for nearly 10 years on a false blasphemy conviction was released from prison on Nov. 9 after a high court acquitted him, but quietly to avoid Islamist outrage, his attorney...