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...
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,...