Sep 27, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan have found a 14-year-old Christian girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forced to marry and convert to Islam, but a court on Thursday (Sept. 23) rejected her family’s attempt to recover her,...
Sep 24, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – An 83-year-old Christian woman in eastern Uganda continues to receive hospital treatment two weeks after Islamic extremists, one posing as a pastor, attacked her, sources said. Harriet Namuganza had given refuge...
Sep 13, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, India, September 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 14-year-old Christian boy in eastern India is fighting for his life a month after suspected Hindu extremists threw flammable liquid on him and set him on fire, sources said. “He is very, very critical,” said...
Sep 11, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in an area of Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (Sept. 6) fired high-powered weapons at the homes of Christians, wounding a pregnant woman and at least three other people, sources said. A wounded Christian...
Sep 8, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 8, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda last week boarded a boat in which a young evangelist was fishing and killed him, sources said. Dante Tambika, also known as Patrick, was beaten and strangled to death near...
Sep 7, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, September 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and suspected local Muslims killed 40 Christians in and near Jos, Nigeria in attacks on Aug. 25 and Aug. 15, sources said. Armed with machetes and guns, herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian...
Sep 2, 2021 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, September 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state is in hiding after hard-line Hindu neighbors beat him unconscious with iron rods last month, sources said. Santosh Kumar, 35, left his home on Aug. 1 shortly...
Aug 31, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 31, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim supervisor is threatening to file blasphemy charges against a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan if she refuses to withdraw her sexual assault accusation against him, a human rights leader said....
Aug 30, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, August 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 36 Christians in multiple attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria this month with impunity, while a church leader complained that authorities arrested only Christians for defending themselves. The...
Aug 28, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a former Islamic teacher in Uganda who became a Christian set a trap for him last month, hiring killers to bury him alive in a large ant mound, sources said. Saban Sajabi, 32, had gained repute...
Aug 25, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, August 25, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Soldiers and security personnel failed to intervene this month as Fulani herdsmen killed 70 Christians in one area of Plateau state, Nigeria, while in other areas soldiers helped herdsmen destroy farmland, Christian...
Aug 25, 2021 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor’s wife is still bed-ridden after hard-line Sikhs and Hindus broke her leg in an attack on their church last month in northern India, sources said. Carrying swords and wooden rods, the assailants also...