Mar 8, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in Somalia identified as Al Shabaab rebels last month shot to death an underground Christian woman and her son and seriously wounded her husband, sources said. The family was asleep at their home...
Mar 4, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2017(Morning Star News) – Hours after an evangelist in Uganda accused of kidnapping was released on bail today, an Islamic leader urged village Muslims to kill him, an area source said. Muslims in eastern Uganda’s Kachomo village, Budaka...
Mar 4, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police in eastern Uganda on Sunday(Feb. 26) arrested an evangelist after a Muslim accused him of kidnapping his adult daughter, who had taken refuge with the Christian after leaving Islam, sources said. In an effort...
Mar 4, 2017 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, February 28, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of Christians continue to flood out of the Egyptian town of Al-Arish in northern Sinai after the third Copt in a week was gunned down on Thursday (Feb. 23), reportedly by Islamic State-linked...
Feb 27, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Sudan released Czech aid worker Petr Jasek on Saturday (Feb. 25), nearly one month after a court in Khartoum sentenced him to life in prison for espionage and other charges, according to reports. Jasek...
Feb 25, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police in Omdurman, Sudan arrested four Christians this week and accused them of destroying the sign board of a Muslim interest trying to take over their Christian school, source said. Police arrived at the...
Feb 24, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A 16-year-old Christian in Pakistan is languishing in jail under a baseless blasphemy charge after a judge declined to grant him bail this month, his attorney said. The judge in Punjab Province’s Kasur District...
Feb 20, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, February 20, 2017(Morning Star News) – State officials in Sudan plan to demolish at least 25 church buildings in the Khartoum area, according to Christian leaders. A June 13, 2016 letter from the Executive Corporation for the Protection of...
Feb 17, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 16, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A regional church leader convened an emergency meeting of pastors in eastern Uganda on Friday(Feb. 10) to refute what he called a false news story aimed at covering up a Muslim assault on a prayer meeting. The...
Feb 14, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, February 10, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Jharkhand state, India last month succumbed to illnesses incurred when villagers immersed him and his wife in frigid water because they refused to deny Christ, relatives said. Upset that his family had...
Feb 6, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, February 6, 2017(Morning Star News) – A 70-year-old Christian in Pakistan was jailed on blasphemy charges on the same day 106 Muslims accused in a 2013 attack on a Christian colony were acquitted. A mosque leader in the Lambanwali area north of...
Feb 5, 2017 | News & Stories
HYDERABAD, India, Feb. 3, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A week after a pastor fell into a coma following harassment by hard-line Hindus in southern India, a gang of Hindu extremists in the same state beat another pastor after he prayed for healing at the home of an...