May 14, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 14, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have demanded 30 million naira (US$73,600) for the release of a Pentecostal church pastor they kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria on Monday night (May 10), according to a local report. Pastor...
May 12, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the May 3 killing of a Christian pastor hours after he engaged in a public debate about Christianity and Islam, sources said. Pastor Thomas Chikooma, a resident of...
May 10, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria kidnapped a pastor’s wife from her home and two nurses from a hospital, while other Islamic extremists may have joined herdsmen in abducting more than 70 people from one village,...
May 6, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 12 Christians in Nasarawa state and three others in Plateau state the last part of April, sources said. In north-central Nigeria’s Nasarawa state, herdsmen killed 12 Christian farmers in...
May 5, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in India who initially took a pastor and his family into custody to protect them from an attack by a 300-member Hindu extremist mob were pressured into jailing them under a baseless charge of forcible conversion,...
May 3, 2021 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda upset with a pastor’s plans to build a church on land they sought to buy are suspected in his death by poisoning, sources said. Pastor Yolonim Oduchu was poisoned on April 5 in Raraka village,...
May 1, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – One Christian student remains captive after three others escaped abduction on Thursday (April 29) by Muslim Fulani herdsmen from a Christian missions school in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. School and...
Apr 29, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan tortured a Christian man into confessing to a false allegation of blaspheming Islam and illegally kept him in custody for more than two months, his attorney said. Salamat Mansha Masih’s...
Apr 28, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday night (April 26) killed 10 Christians who had taken refuge in a camp for the displaced in north-central Nigeria, bringing to 33 the number of Christians slain in Benue state the past...
Apr 28, 2021 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, April 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – In a ploy to revoke registration of Christian organizations and shrink their influence, Hindu extremists in Nepal have forged a document as if from Christian groups portraying them as seeking ethnic divisions to...
Apr 27, 2021 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a Baptist worship service in north-central Nigeria on Sunday (April 25), killing one Christian, wounding another and abducting five others, sources said. “The Fulani herdsmen came to...
Apr 26, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith, a relative said. Adnan Bashir, 40, wandered...