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...
Oct 25, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, October 23, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In an ongoing bid by the government of Sudan to take over leadership of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), police on Sunday (Oct. 22) arrested five SCOC church leaders after they refused to comply with an...
Oct 20, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, October 20, 2017(Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan have detained a container of Bibles in Port Sudan without explanation for more than two years, a source said. A Bible Society in Sudan representative told Morning Star News the container was...
Oct 17, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, October 16, 2017(Morning Star News) – A Christian teenager in northern India was jailed for 12 days after anti-Hindu comments appeared on a fake Facebook account in his name, sources said. Sandeep Kumar, 18, christened Karan Anthony, was released on...
Oct 11, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 10, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The young man did not answer after his father asked him if he had ditched Islam to become a Christian. Magale (also called Mabala) Hamidu, 20, of Nanoko village in eastern Uganda, had become a Christian seven...
Oct 8, 2017 | News & Stories
October 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – While a government-hired thug in China threatened to kill a Christian family, officials in a neighboring province arrested a pastor, her daughter and her 3-year-old grandson, sources said. In Xinning, Hubei Province in the central...
Sep 27, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, September 26, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A month after seven church leaders were arrested, interrogated and released on bail, police in Sudan detained and questioned another church leader in Omdurman on Friday (Sept. 22), sources said. Elder Mahjoub...