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...
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....