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...
Sep 22, 2017 | News & Stories
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 22, 2017(Morning Star News) – Before Boko Haram began growing into a prominent terrorist force in northeast Nigeria in 2009, its members were trying to kill a highly effective evangelist to ethnic Fulani Muslims. One Boko Haram member...
Sep 22, 2017 | News & Stories
September 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Four Christians in Nepal sentenced to five years in prison on false charges of “witchcraft” and “violence” were released today after a high court annulled their convictions, church leaders said. Lali Pun, Bimkali Budha, Suk Lal...
Sep 22, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 18, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of two in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam’s prophet in a phone text even though he is illiterate, sources said. Nadeem James, 27, was charged in July 2016 in...
Sep 15, 2017 | News & Stories
September 15, 2017 (Morning Star News) – China has tightened its “choke-hold” on churches across the country in recent weeks, according to advocacy group China Aid. Recent bans on unregistered church worship and on teaching Christianity to children, “as if intending...
Sep 15, 2017 | News & Stories
ANCHA, Nigeria, September 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state massacred 20 Christians, including children, as they slept in the hours after midnight on Friday (Sept. 8) in an apparent reprisal attack that mystified...