Jun 28, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan upheld the life sentence of a Christian convicted of sending blasphemous text messages in spite of the prosecution’s manipulated evidence and failure to establish his involvement,...
Jun 25, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, June 25, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India last month. The Christians belong to 13 tribal families of Rayagada District, Odisha...
Jun 24, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, June 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani killed a Christian doctor on June 17 in Niger state, Nigeria following attacks that killed 17 Christians in Plateau state, sources said. Dr. Precious Emeka Chinedu was killed after five Fulani herdsmen...
Jun 23, 2021 | News & Stories
June 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The threat of investigating a church for possible criminal activity in the spread of COVID-19 in Vietnam was confirmed in a letter on Friday (June 18) from officials to a recently formed house-church alliance, sources said. In the...
Jun 21, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tears rolled down Shahid Gill’s face as he recalled the day last month when a court in Pakistan handed his 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man. Gill, a Roman Catholic, works as a...
Jun 16, 2021 | News & Stories
June 15, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The vilification of the Revival Ekklesia Mission church in Vietnam has somewhat quieted, but its linking of evangelicals with COVID-19 is feared to have done long-lasting damage. State media, government agencies and the public in...
Jun 16, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 15, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple acquitted by a high court in Pakistan fear for their lives as Islamic extremists have started a campaign calling for their murders ahead of their yet unconfirmed release from jail, sources said....
Jun 9, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 9, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian employee’s Muslim supervisor sent people to kill him last month in eastern Uganda after he refused to convert to Islam, sources said. Christians at the funeral of evangelist Fred Isiko, who drove a van for...
Jun 7, 2021 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, June 7, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in a separate case sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with...
Jun 3, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court (LHC) today acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on charges of blaspheming Islam, their attorney said. Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh accepted an appeal...
Jun 3, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, June 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Relatives of a pastor in northern India killed his Christian father with axe and sword blows and seriously wounded the church leader and his brother for leaving tribal religion, sources said. While local media and police...
Jun 2, 2021 | News & Stories
June 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A house-church organization in Vietnam is facing government prosecution and community hate due to COVID-19, sources said. A couple who attended the meeting place of the Revival Ekklesia Mission (REM), an independent, charismatic...