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...
Jul 16, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, July 16, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Three church buildings were set ablaze in six weeks in the state in southern India with the most attacks against Christians this year, sources said. In one case, a church building in southern India’s Tamil Nadu...
Jul 15, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 13, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In further anti-Christian hostilities in eastern Uganda, Muslims knocked a pastor unconscious at a debate and Islamist threats in another village put a halt to worship services. Threats by Muslims in Mazuba village,...
Jul 13, 2018 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, July 12, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Khartoum, Sudan have handed back a church building that they had padlocked four years ago and threatened to seize, Christian leaders said. A Sudanese church leader involved in the return of the...
Jul 12, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 11, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In a rash of recent actions against Christians in Nepal, an alcoholic who became violent during an intervention had Christian leaders arrested on forcible conversion charges, and a foreign couple was deported. Isak...
Jul 10, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, July 9, 2018 (Morning Star News) – When evangelists in India were accused of fraudulent conversion in a village at a time when they were hundreds of miles from it, they knew powers beyond their control were at play. Pastor Kasiram Meghwal, 46, was leading...
Jul 6, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 6, 2018 (Morning Star News) – One year after several Christian women lost their husbands to Islamic extremist attacks in coastal Kenya, they have few means of supporting their children. Gone is the Non-Governmental Organization aid initially...