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...
Jun 1, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 31, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in Niger state, Nigeria have shot to death a missionary and pastor and his 3-year-old son, sources said. Leviticus Makpa, 39, had established a Christian school in Kamberi village, where he served as a...
May 26, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern India contracted COVID-19 while seeking treatment at hospitals where personnel were reluctant to admit him for injuries sustained in a Hindu extremist assault last month, sources said. Pastor Ramnivas...
May 26, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (May 23) killed 14 Christians in a village near Jos, Plateau state and eight others in another village, sources said. Herdsmen attacked Kwi village, Riyom County, near Jos, at about 11 p.m.,...
May 24, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed two more Christians in Plateau state on Friday night (May 21), the same day a Catholic priest was found slain in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, sources said. Following the killing of a young...
May 24, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed the wife and nephew of a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria in an attack on their home on Thursday night (May 20), sources said. Jeffrey Moses, 26, said he and his wife, 21-year-old Ladi Jeffrey,...
May 17, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A widow and her children who fled their home in eastern Uganda after her husband was killed in 2015 returned this year, only to narrowly escape an attack this month that burned down her reconstructed home, sources...