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....
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...