Apr 11, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, April 9, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A hard-line Hindu has confessed to attempting to murder a pastor in southern India as the Christian leader was praying at night, according to police. Pastor Madira Koti Reddy, who leads a house church in...
Apr 4, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 3, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Four Christians, including a woman, were killed and a young girl wounded in a terrorist attack in Pakistan on Monday(April 2), sources said. Rickshaw driver Pervaiz Masih was transporting his brothers-in-law Imran...
Mar 30, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 28, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Medical staff and security guards at a major government hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (March 26) killed a Christian father of four and injured five members of his family, including the pregnant sister he...
Mar 27, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, March 27, 2018 (Morning Star News) – About 20 villagers questioning Christians gathered for worship in a home in Odisha state, India were animists who worshipped objects in nature and other gods, but Hindu nationalists had led them there. “Why have you left...
Mar 27, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, March 26, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria retained the only Christian among more than 100 kidnapped girls who were freed last week, prompting the head of her church denomination to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to...
Mar 26, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – An anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday (March 24) acquitted 20 Muslims suspected of involvement in the killing and burning in a brick kiln of a Christian couple in 2014, sources said. A frenzied...
Mar 26, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A week after a young Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, relatives attacked him with hot cooking oil, sources said. Gobera Bashir, 27, is still in pain with burns on 40 percent of his body after the...
Mar 21, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, March 21, 2018(Morning Star News) – Before Hindu extremists attacking a church in southern India this month repeatedly kicked a pastor’s wife in the face, rendering her unconscious, they tried to snatch her Bible from her. Persia Jacob, 38, clasped...
Mar 21, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the church pastor told Morning Star News....
Mar 20, 2018 | News & Stories
MIANGO, Nigeria, March 19, 2018(Morning Star News) – Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before. “These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this...
Mar 17, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, March 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A young Christian mother of three has been in hiding for more than four months since Muslim Fulani herdsmen threatened her after killing her husband, she said. Soon after the herdsmen killed her husband in an attack...
Mar 15, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, March 14, 2018 (Morning Star News) – On a recent Monday at noon in southern India, a pastor’s family in Telangana state noticed motorcycles parked outside their church gate and a gang of young men loudly reading the church banner. The banner of the...