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...
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...