May 9, 2017 | News & Stories
an SCOC building on Oct. 27, 2015 without prior warning, church leaders said. Local authorities said the SCOC building was on government land, a claim church leaders adamantly denied. Karari officials in Omdurman, across the Nile River from Khartoum, reportedly...
May 2, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 2, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A 14-year-old Catholic girl in Pakistan, taken from her family in December and forcibly converted to Islam, was rescued on Wednesday (April 26), her lawyer said. Attorney Tahir Bashir said police officer Munir Ahmed...
May 2, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 1, 2017 – Gruesome violence against Muslims accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has reignited calls for amending blasphemy statutes commonly used to persecute Christians. The lynching of a Muslim student over blasphemy charges at a university in...
Apr 15, 2017 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, April 14, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The social services agency of Tizi-Ouzou Province, Algeria, has denied a permit to a childcare facility without explanation, but almost certainly because of the owner’s Christian faith, sources said. The owner...
Apr 12, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Zanzibar have re-opened a child abuse case dismissed more than two years ago as a pretext for jailing a pastor on the semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said. Police in...
Apr 7, 2017 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, April 7, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma army have been jailed without trial for more than three months, sources said. Pastors Dom Dawng Nawng Latt, 65, and 35-year-old La Jaw Gam Hseng were arrested on Dec. 24...
Apr 1, 2017 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 31, 2017(Morning Star News) – Convert from Islam Ebrahim Firoozi learned only in the past week that an Iranian appeals court in December upheld his five-year prison sentence for crimes related to practicing his faith, advocates reported. At the...
Mar 31, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, March 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police accused staff members of a Christian school in Sudan of obstructing the work of a Muslim-owned business interest trying to take it over, sources said. Police in Omdurman, across from Khartoum on the Nile...
Mar 31, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A young Christian sanitation worker was gunned down in Pakistan on March 20 for refusing an influential Muslim’s order to clean his outhouse on his day off, sources said. Noman Munir Masih, 20, of Sheikhupura in...
Mar 31, 2017 | News & Stories
KEFFI, Nigeria, March 28, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Armed attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen on predominantly Christian communities in Nasarawa state this year have left more than 200 people dead and destroyed homes and farms, sources said. One such attack on a...
Mar 31, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DEHLI, March 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police in Bihar state this month obeyed Hindu extremist orders not to interfere as they beat a pastor and a Bible college student, sources said. The Hindu extremists in the eastern state of India lured Assemblies of God...
Mar 20, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 20, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Uganda last week dropped charges aimed at stirring up Islamist opposition against an evangelist who provides refuge to converts from Islam, sources said. A court in Tirinyi, Kibuku District on March 13...