Nov 24, 2020 | News & Stories
. The attorney, Makarios Lahzy, told Al-Monitor that the charges they are facing are unconstitutional. Egypt’s “blasphemy” law against insulting religion has come under fire for violating the country’s constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and religious...
Nov 23, 2020 | News & Stories
on Jan. 9 by ISWAP while returning to school from the Christmas and New Year’s break from her native Plateau state. ISWAP in 2016 broke off from Boko Haram, which attacked two predominantly Christian communities in Borno state earlier this month. The Boko Haram...
Nov 12, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 12, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria on Friday (Nov. 6) and the next day kidnapped seven persons, including five daughters of a church pastor, according to a local advocacy group. Surviving...
Nov 12, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 11, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A high court in Sindh Province, Pakistan on Monday (Nov. 9) invalidated the marriage of a 13-year-old Catholic girl to a Muslim alleged to have abducted and forcibly married her, sources said. The court has yet...
Nov 6, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 6, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists killed a pastor in northern Uganda on Saturday (Oct. 31) after he compared Christianity and Islam in a radio broadcast, sources said. David Omara, 64-year-old pastor of Christian Church Center...
Nov 6, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 5, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Having taken over more than 100 once predominantly Christian villages in four countries of southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, Muslim Fulani militia killed three more Christians in late October, a rigths advocate said....
Nov 5, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 4, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants in northeast Nigeria attacked a predominantly Christian village near Chibok, Borno state on Sunday morning (Nov. 1), killing 12 Christians and kidnapping women and children, sources said....
Nov 5, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 3, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Police in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday (Nov. 2) recovered a 13-year-old Christian girl and arrested the Muslim accused of abducting and forcibly marrying and converting her, sources said. The action came hours...
Nov 3, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 2, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A pastor abducted in northeastern Nigeria was released on Friday (Oct. 30), while Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state have kidnapped a 6-year-old Christian boy after killing his father, sources said. Militants...
Oct 30, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 30, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Somalia long persecuted for his faith had not seen his children attacked until this month, when an assault on his 7-year-old son sent him to the hospital for three days. The convert from Islam told...
Oct 29, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, October 29, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A church pastor in Nigeria who went missing on Oct. 19 has been captured along with two Christian women by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), according to a video released by the terrorist...
Oct 28, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, October 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen wounded two Christians in north-central Nigeria on Sunday (Oct. 25), a little more than week after herdsmen in the country’s northeast killed another church member while a Christian woman and pastor...