Sep 8, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 7, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Somali militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab killed four Christians in coastal Kenya on Wednesday (Sept. 6), a local source said. Shaken residents of Bobo village in Lamu County left their homes and...
Sep 6, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, September 5, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Catholic priest who was kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria on Friday (Sept. 1), was found dead on Saturday, sources said. Gunmen dragged the Rev. Cyriacus Onunkwo, of the diocese of Orlu, Imo state, from his car...
Aug 31, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 31, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!” “I remained...
Aug 31, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said. Sophia Nakisaala, 35, turned to Christ on Aug. 7 after her daughter was healed when a...
Aug 29, 2017 | News & Stories
on Jan. 2 this year of charges ranging from spying to inciting hatred against the government. Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments had written a letter dated Aug. 14 ordering them to hand over church leadership to the committee appointed by the...
Aug 25, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 25, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A relative at the burial of a Christian mother of three who died in detention in Eritrea told Morning Star News her body showed signs of torture that could have contributed to her death. Eritrean authorities...
Aug 25, 2017 | News & Stories
CAIRO, August 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Authorities have closed a church that serves three villages in Upper Egypt on the pretext that area Muslims object to it – one of at least 15 Christian worship sites shuttered in the bishopric of Minya, sources said. Coptic...
Aug 22, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob in rural Punjab Province, Pakistan stormed a police station to continue beating a 16-year-old boy accused of blaspheming the Koran, sources said. Asif Masih, illiterate and mildly mentally challenged...
Aug 22, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, Sudan, August 21, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In further efforts to help a Muslim businessman take over church property, police in Omdurman, Sudan evicted two church leaders and their families from their houses, sources said. Police on Tuesday (Aug. 15) raided...
Aug 18, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 18, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In an expanded order to remove “blasphemous” content from social media in Pakistan, a high court judge included a recommendation that Parliament include terrorism charges against those accused of blasphemy. Last...
Aug 18, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, August 16, 2017 (Morning Star News) – As two Hindu extremists gripped his hands while others beat him last week in northern India, Pastor Amar Stephen was asking God to forgive them. “Some attackers were holding both my hands so I couldn’t move,...
Aug 14, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, August 14, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian Berom farmers in Plateau state, Nigeria amount to “economic terrorism,” Christian leaders told Morning Star News. While Plateau state officials say “relative...