Feb 20, 2018 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of Christian families fled their homes in a village near Lahore, Pakistan yesterday after Muslim protestors called for the death of a young Christian accused of blasphemy, sources said. Patras Masih,...
Feb 20, 2018 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 19, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Suspected members of Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab shot three Christians to death in northeastern Kenya at 1 a.m. on Friday(Feb. 16), sources said. Targeting Kenyans who came from other areas to work in...
Feb 16, 2018 | News & Stories
February 16, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim extremist who attacked a Catholic church in Indonesia on Sunday (Feb. 11) had tried to go to Syria, according to reports. The 23-year-old identified as Suliyono of Bayuwangi in East Java wounded a priest and three...
Feb 13, 2018 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 12, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan yesterday demolished a church building in North Khartoum, sources said. The 64 members of the Evangelical Church in Al Haj Yousif in the Sudanese capital will have no place to worship next...
Feb 9, 2018 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, February 8, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Jeewer Joeswa wasn’t sure what to think when a massive, chanting Hindu throng in northern India brought the corpse of a Christian woman to his church site – then set the building on fire. Seema Devi, 23,...
Feb 7, 2018 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 6, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A court in Sudan has fined seven church leaders fighting a takeover of their school in Omdurman for “objection to authorities,” a church leader said. The court yesterday (Feb. 5) found Sudan Presbyterian...
Feb 5, 2018 | News & Stories
JEBU-MIANGO, Nigeria, February 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Attacks on villages in north-central Nigeria that killed eight Christians in the past two weeks were carried out by Muslim Fulani herdsmen aided by terrorists from Islamic extremist groups, a local pastor...
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...