Aug 29, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, August 27, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Christians’ confidence in the judiciary in Nepal was shattered after a court sentenced a 63-year-old pastor to 10 years in prison on rape accusations the complainant later renounced, church leaders said. Pastor Govinda...
Aug 22, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A church outside Kampala, capital of Uganda, has closed after months of area Muslims pelting its gatherings with rocks, sources said. The final blow came on Aug. 4, when a stone thrown through a window struck...
Aug 21, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, August 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – When a Hindu in northern India got rid of the idols in his house after several visits to a church, Hindu nationalists found the perfect opportunity to make life a nightmare for a pastor’s family, sources said. Since the...
Aug 17, 2018 | News & Stories
August 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A convert from Islam in Iran said he and 11 other Christians were sentenced to a year in prison for “inclination to the land of Christianity” among other charges, according to Mohabat News. “Interrogations were obviously...
Aug 13, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 15, 2018 (Morning Star News) – About an hour before midnight on July 31, three policemen and a Hindu neighbor barged into a Christian woman’s house in northern India and ordered her and her husband to either give them money or go to jail. The...
Aug 12, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 10, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A member of an Islamic extremist party in Pakistan has charged a Christian with blasphemy as part of a scheme by the accused’s ex-girlfriend and her brother, sources said. Farhan Aziz, 26, was arrested under...
Aug 6, 2018 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, August 6, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Burmese army-backed militia beat two youth pastors in northern Burma (Myanmar) last week, detaining one of them overnight at the force’s base, sources said. At the home of one of the Christians in Kachin state,...
Aug 2, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 31, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sagar Baizu, 46, had finished one meeting and had an hour before the next one, so he decided to stop at a café on a major thoroughfare in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, on July 19. As he was about to sip a coffee in...
Jul 25, 2018 | News & Stories
July 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in Iran were arrested from their homes today and yesterday following the violent arrest of pastor Yousef Nadarkhani on Sunday (July 22), according to advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC). Pastor Nadarkhani, a...
Jul 25, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Three children kidnapped in 2015 in eastern Uganda were found in May, malnourished and showing signs of having been indoctrinated in Islam, relatives said. Had the children not escaped, they might have been forced...
Jul 19, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 19, 2018 (Morning Star News) –Brandishing hockey sticks and a gun that was fired on house-church grounds, masked Hindu extremists assaulted Christians in Uttar Pradesh, India. After the July 2 assault that terrorized families and sent nine of about...
Jul 19, 2018 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, July 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Church leaders didn’t get an explanation for why the seventh worship building to be closed in Algeria since November was sealed last week, but they suspect lack of registration was the pretext. It is virtually...