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,...
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...