May 9, 2019 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 8, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Aasiya Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi, has arrived in Canada along with her husband more than six months after being acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from prison in Pakistan, sources said. After...
May 9, 2019 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 8, 2019 (Morning Star News) – It was a different kind of Easter celebration this year for Pastor Anil Juit of Maranatha Full Gospel Church in eastern India. Opening the door of the historic church building in Arrah, in Bihar state’s Bhojpur District, on...
May 6, 2019 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, May 6, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed and killed a 26-year-old Catholic on Thursday (May 2) in north-central Nigeria and two other Christians in the same manner on April 27, sources said. After a herdsmen assault in...
May 3, 2019 | News & Stories
, filed a complaint with gendarmerie on 2017. Under pressure from her family, she divorced him after falsely accusing him of attacking Islam and destroying a box inscribed with a verse from the Koran on it. A judge upheld the acquittal in a Feb. 27 ruling. His in-laws...
May 1, 2019 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, April 30, 2019 (Morning Star News) – More than a month after men claiming to be Maoists in Nepal assaulted Dhurba Kumar Pariyar, the 40-year-old pastor is still physically and mentally traumatized. “I still have headache and chest pain, though I am under...
May 1, 2019 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 29, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of family members and sympathizers on Saturday (April 27) attended a funeral in northeastern Nigeria for eight young Christians, six of them minors, who were killed when an off-duty security officer drove his...
Apr 26, 2019 | News & Stories
at the main demonstration outside the Military headquarters. At that occasion a statement by Rafat Samir Mussad, the chair of the Community Council of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, was read that ends with the call: “My beloved fellow Sudanese and fellow...
Apr 24, 2019 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, April 24, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Police in Nepal arrested four Christians from a hotel, including a woman from the United States, early Tuesday morning (April 23) on false charges of conversion by allurement, sources said. Police from Dang Deukhuri...
Apr 24, 2019 | News & Stories
CAIRO, Egypt, April 23, 2019 (Morning Star News) – A Coptic church in Upper Egypt is closed after a throng of angry Muslims attacked it this month, beating a priest and another Copt as more than 200 fearful children who had gathered for Bible lessons looked on,...
Apr 22, 2019 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, April 22, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Sri Lanka have never seen such a large-scale attack on them as the one that hit three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21), killing at least 290 people, they said. “I don’t have...
Apr 22, 2019 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 22, 2019 (Morning Star News) – At midnight on April 14 I received a phone call about an attack in Konshu village, confirming my fear that it was only a matter of time before Muslim Fulani herdsmen atrocities in Nigeria reached my native home area...
Apr 19, 2019 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 18, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 17 Christians who had gathered after a baby dedication at a church in central Nigeria, including the mother of the child, sources said. Safaratu John Kabiru Ali, the mother of the baby,...