Mar 18, 2017 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, March 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Police in Omdurman yesterday detained three Christian teachers from the Evangelical School of Sudan in a bid to help a Muslim businessman take ownership of the school, Christian sources said. They were released...
Mar 18, 2017 | News & Stories
JOS, Nigeria, March 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Having warned journalists and Christian leaders to stop speaking out about anti-Christian violence in Nigeria, the government this week also ordered the cancellation of a day of prayer and national mourning for slain...
Mar 17, 2017 | News & Stories
MAKURDI, Nigeria, March 15, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A year after Muslim Fulani herdsmen slaughtered an estimated 300 predominantly Christian farmers in Agatu, Benue state, deadly attacks continued in the state the first 10 weeks of the year, sources said. More than...
Mar 17, 2017 | News & Stories
March 13, 2017 (Morning Star News) – China Aid’s 2016 Annual Persecution Report details a seismic shift in the Chinese government’s approach to religious policy that is expected to lead to further persecution.The report’s core subject tracks a deviation in the Chinese...
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...