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...
Jan 31, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, January 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Sudan on Sunday (Jan. 29) sentenced Czech aid worker Petr Jasek to life in prison and two other Christians to prison terms of 12 years on charges related to “espionage,” a defense attorney said....
Jan 31, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda and eight other Christians are missing two weeks after a Muslim mob attacked a church prayer meeting, locked the congregation in, beat several members and raped 15 women, sources said....
Jan 27, 2017 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, January 26, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Months after Hindu extremists and police attacked a revival meeting in northern India and shut down a church, one pastor is in hiding, and officers prohibit another from praying with members of the scattered...
Jan 24, 2017 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, January 23, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Burma (Myanmar) army officials have confirmed that they arrested two assistant priests missing since Dec. 24 and accused them of aiding ethnic separatists. The Burma army accused Dom Dawng Nawng Latt and La Jaw Gam...
Jan 19, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, January 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities ordered a South Sudanese pastor to leave the country last month for evangelizing and church activities, sources said. Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on Dec. 6...
Jan 13, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists ambushed a church leader in eastern Uganda last week after a sheikh they had sent to assassinate him at a church service instead became a Christian, sources said. In Amuria, about 170 miles (280...