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...
Dec 4, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, December 3, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Several families are in hiding after tribal animists in Chhattisgarh state, India threatened to kill them for reporting a mob attack to police last week that sent 21 Christians to hospitals, sources said. Armed with...
Dec 3, 2020 | News & Stories
December 2, 2020 (Morning Star News) – The government of Vietnam has denied the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South) permission to hold its scheduled bi-annual Clergy Assembly, according to the Bureau of Religious Affairs. After the ECVN(S) announced on Nov. 25 that...
Dec 2, 2020 | News & Stories
, Kenya, December 1, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Suspected members of an insurgent jihadist group slaughtered 20 Christians in villages in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Nov. 20 and Nov. 25, area sources said. The Islamic...
Nov 30, 2020 | News & Stories
. “They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states. Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe...
Nov 27, 2020 | News & Stories
Nairobi, Kenya, November 26, 2020 (Morning Star News) – the Muslim relatives of a former sheikh in eastern Uganda who refused to renounce Christ killed his 6-year-old son on Monday (Nov. 23), two days after Islamists in the western part of the country killed a pastor...
Nov 24, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 24, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A high court in Pakistan on Monday (Nov. 23) ruled that a 13-year-old Catholic girl allegedly abducted and forcibly converted and married to a Muslim man must remain in a government shelter home until she...