May 3, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, May 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Maoists took responsibility for the gruesome slaying of a pastor in eastern India last night (May 1), but area Christians said they suspected Hindu extremists put them up to it. Abraham Topno, pastor of Pentecostal Church...
May 3, 2018 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, May 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – The Burma (Myanmar) military in April bombed predominantly Christian, ethnic Kachin civilians and restricted aid to displaced villagers trapped in the wilds, sources said. Burma government forces fired artillery and...
May 2, 2018 | News & Stories
CAIRO, Egypt, April 30, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Another Christian soldier in Egypt has died under mysterious circumstances. The family of Mikhail Farahat Saad received notice from the army on April 22 that their son had died in a military camp in North Sinai...
May 2, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, April 30, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Uttarakhand has become the seventh state in India to put “anti-conversion” legislation in force. Gov. Krishna Kant Paul on April 18 signed the “Freedom of Religion” bill (Dharma Swatantrata Adhiniyam), which the state...
Apr 27, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, April 27, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sunder Singh’s church in southern India was about to take Holy Communion the day before Easter when he saw smoke billowing in from a window pane. He was sitting across from the pulpit as a guest pastor was...
Apr 26, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 26, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Still shocked over a deadly attack on a Catholic congregation on Tuesday (April 24), Christians in Nigeria’s Benue state yesterday suffered another onslaught by Muslim Fulani herdsmen that reportedly left at least 39...
Apr 26, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, April 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (April 24) attacked a Roman Catholic Church service in central Nigeria, killing two priests and 17 other parishioners during an early morning Mass, sources said. In Ayar-Mbalom...
Apr 26, 2018 | News & Stories
Iranian Christians are thankful that the first appeal hearing went well and that the judges were respectful. They request prayer that: a. the Court of Appeal will act justly and revoke the harsh sentences against the three men b. God will strengthen and encourage...
Apr 24, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman in Pakistan died on Sunday night (April 22) after a Muslim in the Sialkot area set her on fire for refusing to convert to Islam and marry him, relatives said. Muhammad Rizwan Gujjar poured...
Apr 24, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, April 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In a village in northern India, pastor Rakesh Kumar Masih passed out from the pain of Hindu extremists beating his genitals, and they left him for dead. The sun was shining bright when the Hindu nationalists stormed into...
Apr 20, 2018 | News & Stories
CAIRO, Egypt, April 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Security police in Morocco detained a Christian for 24 hours after finding Christian literature in his backpack, according to published reports. Spanish news agency EFE reported that authorities stopped the...
Apr 17, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Quetta, Pakistan are living in fear after the second attack this month by suspected Islamist militants killed two Christians in front of a home. Three other people were injured, including two girls,...