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...
Nov 17, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, November 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Five Christians were killed and five others are missing after attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue states in the past two weeks. Two members of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN)...
Nov 17, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 16, 2017(Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory...
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Nov 15, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 14, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later...
Nov 8, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, November 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26,...
Nov 3, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 1, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in...
Oct 31, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, October 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her two children were killed in north-central Nigeria last week, three days after a kidnapped priest was slain by his abductors in the southwestern part of the country, sources said. Armed...
Oct 31, 2017 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, October 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma (Myanmar) army last December were sentenced to prison on Friday (Oct. 27) on false charges of unlawful association, defaming the military and spying, sources said. Pastor...
Oct 28, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, October 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India has lost hearing in one ear after Hindu extremists tortured him, pressured police to falsely charge him and prevented doctors from treating him, sources said. Pastor Abhay Sagar,...
Oct 25, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A judge failed to show up at a hearing for a pastor facing accusations of child abuse in a case in Zanzibar that Muslims have kept alive after charges were twice dismissed, sources said. Shortly after charges were...
Oct 25, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, October 25, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The church elder in Plateau state, Nigeria saw the Muslim Fulani herdsmen storm into his village at 11 p.m.the night of Oct. 13, shooting in all directions. “Every one of us ran to save his life,” Dauda Samuel...