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...
Dec 2, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, November 30, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Dozens of Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt are rebuilding their lives after Muslim extremists on Friday (Nov. 25) attacked them on suspicions that they were converting a meeting hall and community center into a...
Dec 1, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, November 29, 2016 (Morning Star News) – The daughter of an Algerian Christian sentenced to three years in prison on a charge of blaspheming Islam fears for his life, religious freedom advocates said. Muslim prisoners reportedly planned to beat...
Nov 29, 2016 | News & Stories
GIDAN WAYA, Nigeria, November 28, 2016(Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed at least 12 Christians in southern Kaduna state on Wednesday and Friday (Nov. 23-25) in what Christian leaders call a campaign of ethnic and religious cleansing. The killings...
Nov 28, 2016 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 26, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A court in Lahore has handed the death sentence to five Muslims for torturing and killing an impoverished Christian couple over allegations of burning the Koran, sources said. Eight others charged in the attack...
Nov 23, 2016 | News & Stories
November 21, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in southwestern China, jailed for nearly a year on fabricated charges and suffering a liver disease, focuses on trusting God in a letter of encouragement to his wife, according to China Aid. Authorities took pastor Li...
Nov 15, 2016 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, November 14, 2016(Morning Star News) – A judge in eastern Sudan today ordered a Christian school that government officials had taken over to resume classes under the prior Christian administration, according to the headmaster. The Appeal Court for...