Mar 9, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, March 9, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Violence against Christians in India hit a new level on Tuesday (March 3) when Hindu extremists ran their motorcycles over a key evangelical leader after beating him, sources said. Armed with bamboo rods and a thick metal...
Mar 7, 2020 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, March 6, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders in Sudan were skeptical about a government statement this week that it will consider removing Sundays as a student exam day. Disregarding Sunday as a worship day for Christians, Sudan even before...
Mar 5, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 5, 2020 (Morning Star News) – The families of three Christian schoolteachers killed by Islamic extremists in northeastern Kenya have suffered loss beyond words, but aid from donors in Ireland is helping to compensate for lost income, they said....
Mar 2, 2020 | News & Stories
Food, Water Supply Destroyed Tati, who said he has attended a church in another village eight miles away since he became a Christian after healing prayer cured him of tuberculosis, said the assailants ransacked the house where he has lived for generations. They broke...
Feb 28, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A young Christian man has died after a Muslim landowner on Tuesday (Feb. 25) chained and tortured him, accusing him of “polluting” his tube-well water by rinsing in it, sources said. Saleem Masih, 22, had finished unloading chaff...
Feb 28, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – False charges against eight Christians acquitted on Feb. 19 of kidnapping and forcible conversion in central India have traumatized families and cost them jobs, sources said. Schoolteacher Amiya Jal, one of the...
Feb 28, 2020 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim landowner on Tuesday (Feb. 25) chained and tortured a young Christian man after accusing him of “polluting” his tube-well water by rinsing in it, sources said. Saleem Masih, 22, had finished unloading...
Feb 27, 2020 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 27, 2020 (Morning Star News) – The pastor of a church in eastern Uganda faces a dilemma after receiving threatening messages from Muslim villagers last week. A large family is staying at his church site after Islamist threats for leaving Islam...
Feb 26, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, February 26, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Nearly six years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a high school in northeastern Nigeria, the Chibok area in Borno state is under threat of “annihilation” from the rebel group and the Islamic State in West...
Feb 25, 2020 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 25, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in northern India spent more than two months in jail suffering abuse from other prisoners, even though police found no evidence of wrongdoing and the complainant retracted his accusation, sources...
Feb 25, 2020 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, February 24, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants from terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday night (Feb. 21) destroyed three worship sites and an unspecified number of houses in northeast Nigeria, sources said. Thousands of people were...
Feb 21, 2020 | News & Stories
February 21, 2020 (Morning Star News) – In a West African country that now ranks 28th on Open Doors’ 50 most dangerous countries for Christians after not appearing on the list the previous year, suspected jihadists killed 24 Christians during a church service on...