Jul 16, 2021 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, July 16, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus in northern India who attacked a young Christian woman have filed fabricated charges against her father – basing their case on testimony from a Christian relative apparently pressured into giving a...
Jul 14, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 14, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 39-year-old man in eastern Uganda who recently put his faith in Christ is still recovering from a machete blow to his head by a Muslim relative in late June, sources said. Abudlawali Kijwalo, who comes from family...
Jul 12, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Shahzad Masih told the school principal in Lahore, Pakistan that he refused to leave her office until the official admitted Masih’s daughter had been raped at the school that day, but soon security guards arrived...
Jul 10, 2021 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, July 9, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Algeria on Thursday (July 8) sentenced a Christian to six months in prison and fine of 100,000 dinars (US$740) for allegedly accepting unauthorized donations to spread Christianity, the convert from...
Jul 7, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 7, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court has upheld a ruling in Pakistan granting custody of a 13-year Christian girl to a Muslim accused of kidnapping her, forcibly marrying her and converting her to Islam. Setting aside her parents’...
Jul 7, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda set a pastor’s home on fire on Wednesday (June 30), burning him to death, sources said. Pastor Isima Kimbugwe’s body was burned beyond recognition after the assailants set his home...
Jul 7, 2021 | News & Stories
July 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The first Christians to be punished under a newly amended law in Iran aimed at halting the growth of Christianity and other religious groups were sentenced to five years in prison for spreading “propaganda” against Islam after they...
Jul 5, 2021 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, July 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Masked gunmen in an area south of Khartoum, Sudan attacked a government religious affairs worker at midnight on Friday (July 2) and threatened to kill him for supporting return of church properties to Christians,...
Jul 5, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, July 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen early this morning kidnapped most of the nearly 180 students at a Christian high school in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. Shooting wildly, the armed assailants breached the walls of...
Jul 5, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A suspected criminal recently released on bail in northern India killed a pastor on Wednesday (June 30) for sharing the “love and forgiveness of Christ” with him, sources said. Sonu Kashyap, a Hindu of Sangoi village in...
Jul 3, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda is struggling to recover after her Muslim father beat her and forced her to swallow a toxic substance for leaving Islam, sources said. Hajat Habiiba Namuwaya, a 38-year-old mother of three,...
Jun 29, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Riaz Gill was working in his office at one of Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest government hospitals last week when a group of Muslim doctors stormed in and attacked him. “How can a Chuhra and Bhangi dare to work on the...