Feb 1, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 30, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim high school student accused of killing a Christian in Pakistan has been freed on bail due to gaps in police investigations, sources said. Sharoon Masih, 17, died on Aug. 27, 2017 after Ahmed Raza beat...
Feb 1, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 31, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In a village in eastern Uganda, it took no more than a day for Munabi Abudallah to lose his wife and seven children after putting his faith in Christ. “The Muslims are searching to kill me,” Abudallah, 37, told...
Feb 1, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 29, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Muslim students at a high school in Nairobi on Tuesday night (Jan. 23) beat and stabbed Christians who refused to convert to Islam, a local source said. Tensions had been growing for weeks at Jamhuri High School...
Jan 26, 2018 | News & Stories
January 26, 2018 (Morning Star News) – After opposition shut down a meeting center for Messianic Jews in southern Israel last May, ultra-Orthodox Jews are harassing it again since it re-opened this month, sources said. Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested the presence of the...
Jan 25, 2018 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, January 24, 2018 (Morning Star News) – The Rev. Shaju Devassy was quietly attending to his work as director of a Catholic graduate college in central India on Dec. 30 when police showed up and told him a mob of angry Hindu protestors was on its way. Police...
Jan 23, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, January 22, 2018(Morning Star News) – The body of a pastor in southern India was found hung from the thatched roof of his house early Saturday morning (Jan. 20), a week after he complained to police about opposition from Hindu extremists, sources...
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...