Jul 6, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, July 5, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Thousands of people attended the funeral yesterday of a pastor, his wife and another church leader, all killed by suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen on June 27 in central Nigeria. The three Christians were ambushed and...
Jul 2, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, July 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – An Assemblies of God Nigeria pastor, his wife and son were among at least 218 people killed in Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian areas near Jos on June 23-25, a denominational leader said. Two...
Jun 29, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, June 28, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Falsely accused of running a brothel, a badly beaten pastor in Tamil Nadu state jumped out of a moving car to save himself from Hindu extremists who were threatening to kill him. The hard-line Hindu mob had...
Jun 27, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, June 27, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen with machetes and firearms slaughtered more than 200 people in 10 predominantly Christian communities near Jos, Nigeria on Saturday and Sunday (June 23-24) in what a cattlemen’s spokesman...
Jun 21, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, June 21, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen have killed at least 54 Christians this year in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, according to area sources. In a state where predominantly Christian Bachama tribesmen have formed...
Jun 19, 2018 | News & Stories
June 19, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Christians coerced into an out-of-court settlement following an Islamist attack on a church building in Egypt recently saw the usual outcome – a closed church – a practice that has long oppressed Christians, according to Middle...
Jun 14, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, June 14, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (June 10) killed two Christians and seriously wounded another in central Nigeria as they made their way home from a church service, local sources said. Ibrahim Weyi, 45, and Larry...
Jun 13, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, June 13, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Two weeks ago a Christian couple in eastern India was about to get married, not knowing the bride’s father had filed a false complaint of forcible conversion against them, relatives said. As they were preparing for...
Jun 10, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 8, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Poor Christians in Pakistan commonly see police target them for extortion on false charges, and last week such a case ended in the death of a 24-year-old Christian, relatives said. On the assumption that Christians...
Jun 5, 2018 | News & Stories
June 4, 2018 (Morning Star News) – An unidentified man in Bethlehem lunged at a Catholic priest with what appears to be a knife on Friday (June 1) in a rare attack on a clergyman in the Palestinian Territories. At Bethlehem’s Milk Grotto, the Rev. Fadi Shallufi on...
May 31, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, May 30, 2018 (Morning Star News) – After three policemen in southern India interrupted a pastor as he preached this month, his 58-year-old mother accompanied him to the police station. Officers told them to sit on the floor. Pastor Paul Joshua’s...
May 29, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 29, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In an attack on a church service in northern India that left a 55-year-old man unconscious, the wife of a pastor hid her husband after Hindu extremists said they would kill him, sources said. Women and children were not...