Dec 15, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, December 13, 2017 (Morning Star News) – An Islamist judge in Sudan upheld the eviction of two pastors from their church-owned homes while 60 other Christians have been summoned to court over their refusal to relinquish property, sources said. Judge...
Dec 15, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, December 14, 2017(Morning Star News) – Seven Christians in India have been booked on charges of hurting religious feelings after Hindu extremists savagely beat them when they gathered to pray for a sick man at his home, sources said. Police in Mathura,...
Dec 12, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, December 8, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Besides Islamic extremist Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen, occult groups are also terrorizing Christians in Nigeria. Pastor Victor Kanayo of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was killed in a town in Lagos...
Dec 12, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, December 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Berating and slapping two pastors into signing an apology letter before police, Hindu extremists stopped a planned three-day gospel meeting in Chhattisgarh state, India minutes before it was to begin, sources...
Dec 8, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 7, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A former sheikh (Islamic teacher) in eastern Uganda has been in hiding since he lost his family for putting his faith in Christ two years ago, but last month he was tricked into a life-threatening encounter....
Dec 5, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 4, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The Pakistan government’s surrender to demands of an Islamic extremist group jeopardizes the last chances for Christian mother Aasiya Noreen (Asia Bibi) to overturn her death sentence for “blasphemy,” sources...
Dec 1, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, November 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – For 12 years Mahendra Nagdeve had met with friends and relatives in his house in Madhya Pradesh state, India to worship Christ until he received this notice from city officials this month: “With effect from the...
Dec 1, 2017 | News & Stories
KANO, Nigeria, November 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – When the 50-year-old church elder and leader of Kano state’s Samaila village heard gunshots shortly before midnight, he rushed out of his house to try to find security agents. It was a natural reaction for...
Nov 29, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 28, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya attacked a Christian widow’s children, ages 13, 17 and 21, leaving two of them seriously injured and still in pain 11 days after the assault, sources said....
Nov 29, 2017 | News & Stories
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov. 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Fear of Islamist attacks was again cited as the cause of stopping worship in Egypt this month, even though parishioners said local Muslims supported the opening of the shuttered church outside Cairo, sources...
Nov 24, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, November 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Six Christians facing false charges, two of them beaten by police, were jailed for a month for praying for a sick woman in eastern India, they said. After tribal Gondi villagers in Simdega District, Jharkhand...
Nov 24, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, November 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The police officer who accused five church leaders of refusing an order to stop worship services in Sudan again failed to show up at a hearing on Tuesday (Nov. 21), casting further doubt on the legitimacy of...