Jan 13, 2017 | News & Stories
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, January 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Algeria has reduced from five years to one year a prison sentence for a Christian convicted of offending Islam with cartoons on his Facebook page. Samir Chamek, a 33-year-old theater actor in...
Jan 10, 2017 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, January 9, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Villagers in Shan state, Burma (Myanmar) are increasingly concerned over indications that two assistant priests in Burma have been killed. Sources told Morning Star News that the Burma army arrested Dom Dawng Nawng...
Jan 7, 2017 | News & Stories
January 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – While war in the Middle East dominated international headlines, Islamic extremists in the shadows were taking jihad to Christian civilians in Africa with unprecedented intensity in 2016. In Nigeria, Muslim ethnic Fulanis looked...
Jan 7, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 5, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a young woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ at a Christmas service coerced her into taking poison at a New Year’s celebration, she said. Sandra Summaya, 24, of Bugayi village in...
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Jan 5, 2017 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 4, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Pakistan have filed a blasphemy charge against a Christian in retaliation for refusing their demand that he and others cede church land to them, sources said. In a First Information Report (FIR) at...
Jan 2, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 2, 2017(Morning Star News) – A court in Khartoum, Sudan today released a pastor from prison after acquitting him of charges punishable by the death penalty, sources said. The Rev. Kwa (also transliterated Kuwa) Shamaal, head of Missions of the...
Jan 2, 2017 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 1, 2017 (Morning Star News) – After more than three years, the leadership of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) remains in the hands of government-appointed committee members even after a court ruled in November that the...
Jan 2, 2017 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 30, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A Catholic priest kidnapped in Yemen almost 10 months ago appealed for help in a video released this week by a terrorist group. The Rev. Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped on March 4 in Aden, Yemen when a group of...
Dec 29, 2016 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, December 29, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Two assistant priests in Burma (also called Myanmar) are missing after informing journalists about the bombing of a Catholic church building in Shan state, sources said. Dom Dawng Nawng and La Jaw Gam Hseng went...
Dec 27, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 27, 2016(Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda beat Christians at a Christmas Day service and wrecked the home of a single mother on Christmas Eve, sources said. In predominantly Muslim Obokora village, Pallisa District, 19 masked...
Dec 26, 2016 | News & Stories
MELBOURNE, Australia, December 23, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Police in Australia today arrested seven suspected Islamic terrorists after thwarting a planned bomb attack on three sites in Melbourne, including St. Paul’s Cathedral. Some 400 heavily-armed police raided...
Dec 21, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 20, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Officials in Sudan are delaying a verdict in the trial of two pastors and two others because evidence is insufficient for conviction and they do not want to release them, sources told Morning Star News. The Rev....