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....
Dec 21, 2016 | News & Stories
YANGON, Burma, December 19, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Burmese armed forces this month bombed a Catholic church building in northern Shan state that soldiers had occupied earlier in their fight against ethnic separatists, sources said. In a practice that a U.S....
Dec 15, 2016 | News & Stories
VICTORIA, Australia, December 13, 2016 (Morning Star News) – The blasphemy trial of Jakarta Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama began this morning, with the ethnic Chinese Christian breaking into tears inside the courtroom while hundreds of people protested outside....
Dec 13, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 12, 2016(Morning Star News) – As government investigators sifted through the scene of Egypt’s worst bombing attack against Christians in the nation’s history, today the families of those who were slain mourned and buried their dead....
Dec 13, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 12, 2016(Morning Star News) – Relatives of a former Islamic teacher attacked his 60-year-old mother on Thursday (Dec. 8) for becoming a Christian, wounding her head and breaking her hand, sources said. Aimuna Namutongi sustained a deep cut on...
Dec 9, 2016 | News & Stories
December 7, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A court in Nepal yesterday acquitted eight Christians accused of attempting to convert children by means of a comic book, according to advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). The seven men and one woman were arrested...
Dec 2, 2016 | News & Stories
December 1, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Having concluded their investigations, Indonesian police have now named Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese Christian Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama a suspect in a blasphemy case. The case that has produced virulent protests will now to...