Jan 18, 2018 | News & Stories
January 16, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian killed by Islamic militants in Egypt’s northern Sinai was buried in his home village yesterday amid wailing and tears, religious rights activists said. Bassem Herz Attalhah, 27, was shot to death on a street in...
Jan 16, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, January 15, 2018 (Morning Star News) – When Hindu extremists in India told pastor Karma Oraon they would not stop beating him until he worshipped the monkey god, he felt Christ close to him, he said. “In those moments when they were kicking and...
Jan 13, 2018 | News & Stories
KADUNA, Nigeria, January 12, 2018 (Morning Star News) – At first the commercial motorcycle drivers I needed clamored for my business, but when they found out I was going to Kwanti village, in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, they all dispersed without haggling over...
Jan 9, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, January 8, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Summoned to a police station after Hindu extremists stopped his church’s worship last month, a pastor in northern India brought some 50 Christians with him to help plead for his rights. But 45-year-old pastor...
Jan 9, 2018 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, January 8, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A mass burial on Sunday(Jan. 7) was announced for 49 of at least 65 Christians killed in Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks in Benue state, Nigeria that began on New Year’s Day, sources said. Benue Gov. Samuel Ortom...
Jan 5, 2018 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, January 5, 2018(Morning Star News) – Government military operations in northern Burma (Myanmar) escalated in December, culminating in civilian casualties on Christmas Eve that left Christians feeling attacked in part for their faith. Offensives against...
Jan 5, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 4, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five in eastern Uganda was pleasantly surprised when two Muslim neighbors visited her on Christmas morning with gifts of sugar, salt, soap, matchboxes, groundnuts and cooking oil. Nafamba...
Jan 2, 2018 | News & Stories
KANO, Nigeria, January 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her adult daughter face kidnapping charges filed to pressure them into following the family patriarch’s conversion to Islam, sources said. Amina Isa, 40, of Kano state’s Gidan Kuran village in...
Dec 30, 2017 | News & Stories
CAIRO, Egypt, December 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – At least nine people were shot to death and several others wounded after gunmen attacked parishioners leaving a worship service this morning in a town south of Cairo, according to the Egyptian Interior Ministry....
Dec 27, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, December 26, 2017 (Morning Star News) – After being framed on false charges earlier this year, two Christians in eastern India recently spent a month in jail, where inmates beat them after discovering they were accused of defiling Hinduism, sources...
Dec 25, 2017 | News & Stories
DELHI, December 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in Chhattisgarh state this month kept hundreds of Christians from a prayer service and attacked those who managed to attend, and in neighboring Madhya Pradesh a frivolous accusation led to the arrest of...
Dec 22, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, December 20, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police arrested Christians who were attacked by Hindu nationalists in Tamil Nadu state, India, then tried to portray the incident as a fight between two parties, sources said. The Hindu extremists savagely beat...