May 5, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 5, 2020 (Morning Star News) – An attempt by Hindu nationalists and media in western India to blame Christians for the mob killing of three Hindus threatens to provoke violence against Christians, sources said. A tribal mob on April 16 killed the three...
May 5, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 4, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians and kidnapped 13 others in attacks on April 23-25 in north-central Nigeria, sources said. The attacks on five villages in the counties of Kajuru and Chikun in Kaduna state...
May 1, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 1, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a Christian couple in Plateau state, Nigeria with machetes on Sunday (April 26), leaving the husband with serious injuries, sources said. Yusuf Pam, 40, was recovering from deep cuts to...
May 1, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 1, 2020 (Morning Star News) – When a Christian sanitation worker died after a police car struck him last week in Gujranwala, Pakistan, officers compensated his impoverished family with the equivalent of US$620. Rights advocates fear the Christian...
Apr 30, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 29, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northwest Nigeria killed 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in attacks this month, sources said. In Tegina Kabata village in Niger state’s Shiroro County,...
Apr 28, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday and Thursday (April 22-23) killed two people, kidnapped another and burned down a church building that included the pastor’s home in attacks on predominantly Christian areas in north-central...
Apr 28, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 27, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Presbyterian assistant pastor Sarfaraz Raja was preparing to deliver a Good Friday sermon in Pakistan on April 10 when his brother informed him by phone that police had intruded into his house and were harassing...
Apr 25, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 22, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Kaduna state on Sunday (April 19), a day after an Anglican priest was kidnapped in southern Nigeria, sources said. Herdsmen attacked Angwan Magaji Kamaru village, near...
Apr 25, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, April 24, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India who demolished a pastor’s house and drove him and his family out of their village in March seriously injured him in an assault this month, he said. After beating, choking and pelting...
Apr 22, 2020 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, April 21, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A gunman at the door of a Christian family’s home in eastern India on Thursday (April 16) shot the daughter of a pastor who was killed in the same house five years ago, family members said. Neelam Purty, 25,...
Apr 21, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 20, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A young woman who told a Muslim about Christ and a pregnant, formerly Muslim woman beaten for her new faith suffered serious injuries in eastern Uganda, sources said. Radical Muslims assaulted Lydia Nabirye,...
Apr 19, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 17, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Christian student was killed in an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna state on Thursday night (April 16), a week after a pastor was slain at his church building residence in southern Nigeria, sources said....