Jun 27, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hospital officials are trying to pressure family members of a Christian who died from lack of treatment to drop charges against them by ordering their arrest, sources said. A court in Pakistan has ordered police to...
Jun 22, 2017 | News & Stories
of a civilian couple who had complained to army officials about the destruction of their house, but military officials released the couple and detained the clergymen, sources said. Normally suspects can be held for only 28 days without trial under Burmese law, the...
Jun 20, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 19, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Amid a government campaign in Pakistan against “blasphemous” content online, a Christian was arrested on Friday (June 16) when a Muslim accused him of blasphemy after a dispute over a repair bill, sources said....
Jun 19, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, June 16, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Villagers in Uttar Pradesh state, India beat Christians, forced them to participate in Hindu rituals and have refused to provide them water, sources said. Four families who were attacked in Jalalabad village,...
Jun 13, 2017 | News & Stories
CAIRO, June 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A young Coptic woman in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt remains missing after her disappearance last week from an area where Muslim attacks against Christians have surged, sources said. Suzan Ashraf Rawy, 22, left for work by foot...
May 28, 2017 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 26, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Heavily armed Islamists in Egypt ambushed a youth pilgrimage to a monastery this morning, shooting dozens of bus passengers to death and leaving more to succumb to their wounds on a desert road. Up to 28 people have...
May 25, 2017 | News & Stories
MINDANAO, Philippines, May 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – An ascendant terrorist group in the Philippines that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) yesterday wreaked violence on the island of Mindanao, kidnapping a catholic priest and 13 members of his...
May 22, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militants are suspected in the killing of two people, at least one a Christian, in a May 12 gun attack in northeastern Kenya, sources said. Five suspected rebels from the Somali Islamic extremist group...
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May 19, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, May 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus in southern India, upset that members of their caste-based group have become Christians, burned down a church building and the pastor’s home this month, sources said. After pastor John Muller and...
May 16, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda who relocated after an Islamist attack has had to shift to yet another site, but he can only visit his family there briefly as his life is in danger, his wife said. Muslims continue to track...
May 12, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, May 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor and another Christian serving a 12-year sentence in Sudan were freed today after they were granted a presidential pardon, sources said. The Rev. Hassan Abdelrahim Tawor had been in prison since his arrest...
May 10, 2017 | News & Stories
May 9, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Indonesia took a huge leap backwards in its reputation as a moderate Islamic democracy today when a court sentenced the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, to two years in prison for “blaspheming” the Koran....