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...
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...