Aug 19, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Muslim father of a 20-year-old convert to Christianity in Uganda on Sunday (Aug. 15) killed him for refusing to recant his faith, sources said. Kasimu Kawona of Bupalama village, Buseta Sub-County in Kibuku...
Aug 19, 2021 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, August 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders in Sudan said government officials have detained a shipment of Bibles by demanding customs fees from which it is exempt. The Rev. Saad Idris Komi, chairman of the Sudan Pentecostal Church, said...
Aug 16, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Muslim brother of a woman in eastern Uganda attacked her with a knife and spear on Aug. 8 after discovering she was a Christian, the mother of two said. In a village near Kasasira, Kibuku District undisclosed...
Aug 14, 2021 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians are in jail after hard-line Hindus in northern India last week beat two of them, both pastors, and a Hindu they were comforting in the loss of his family to COVID-19. Hindu neighbors from the...
Aug 10, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A mother of four children in eastern Uganda remains in pain after her Muslim father beat her and forced her to take mosquito repellant when he learned that she had left Islam and her Muslim husband and married a...
Aug 6, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – When Gulzar Masih’s 14-year-old daughter did not return home from school in Faisalabad, Pakistan on July 27, the rickshaw driver and his brother set out to find her. Reaching the school later that afternoon, they...
Aug 5, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, August 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 24-year-old Christian woman in northern India regained the ability to speak nearly a month after she went into shock from a Sikh family choking her unconscious and attacking her sister and mother, sources said. Meenu...
Aug 3, 2021 | News & Stories
July 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – When several students at the Evangelical Church of Vietnam South’s (ECVN-S) Institute of Bible and Theology in Ho Chi Minh City developed coughs and fevers on July 20, church authorities immediately called the government health...
Jul 28, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, July 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria on Saturday (July 24) killed a Christian pastor they had kidnapped two weeks before, a church source said. The Rev. Danlami Yakwoi of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA)...
Jul 22, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India was forced to leave his village and flee with his family more than 600 miles away after police last month tortured and threatened him, he said. Officers in Uttarakhand state on June 13 arrested...
Jul 21, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 20, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Efforts to end the abduction and forced conversion/marriage of minor Christian girls suffered a setback when the Supreme Court of Pakistan last week declined to intervene in the issue, sources said. Supreme Court...
Jul 21, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, July 19, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen attacked villages in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria unimpeded from July 8 to Wednesday (July 14), killing 33 Christians, sources said. “My mother’s village, Warkan, was attacked by Fulani herdsmen –...