Jan 6, 2021 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 25-year-old Christian is in police custody in Lahore, Pakistan after he shared another person’s post critical of Islam on his Facebook page, sources said. Hundreds of Muslims converged on Raja Warris’...
Jan 6, 2021 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, January 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Korean Christian and three nationals of India are in jail in Uttar Pradesh state, accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food and other aid to people in need due to COVID-19 lockdown, sources...
Dec 31, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist terrorists who kidnapped 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria on Christmas Day have executed five of them, according to a video released by the Islamic State’s AMAQ News agency. The 49-second video,...
Dec 31, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists raped a church pastor on Dec. 21 in eastern Uganda, sources said. The female pastor, whose identity is withheld for her protection, was returning to her home in Kapyani, Kibuku District, from...
Dec 29, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants killed seven Christians in Christmas Eve attacks northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, according to area residents, while two people were reportedly killed in neighboring Adamawa state....
Dec 29, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslims who employed two young Christian women as live-in house cleaners in Lahore, Pakistan have forcibly converted them to Islam and are not permitting Christian relatives to see them, sources said. Nasreen...
Dec 23, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Sudan who have burned down a church’s worship structure five times threatened to kill congregation members if they put up another tent and continue worshipping, sources said. Police this...
Dec 19, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 18, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Christian who spent nearly 11 years in solitary confinement over a false allegation of desecrating the Koran was set to walk free after a high court this week overturned his conviction, sources said. The...
Dec 18, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 17, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A 38-year-old mother of three in eastern Uganda had secretly put her faith in Christ for three months before her Muslim husband found two Bibles in her suitcase. On that day, Nov. 21, in Bugiri District’s Matovu...
Dec 11, 2020 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, December 10, 2020 (Morning Star News) – The last thing pastor Shelton Vishwanathan recalled happening before he lost consciousness in a village in northeast India was Hindu extremists threatening to offer him as a sacrifice to their god as they...
Dec 9, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, December 8, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Representatives of eight village councils in central India first summoned a new Christian to give him an ultimatum in October. They interrupted a church service on Oct. 18 asking for Sattar Singh Markam. “I was...
Dec 7, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 7, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Catholic family’s five-month search for their 12-year-old daughter who was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old Muslim in Faisalabad, Pakistan, ended on Saturday (Dec. 5) when...