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...
Nov 15, 2016 | News & Stories
KAFANCHAN, Nigeria, November 10, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen or allied gunmen in southern Kaduna State appear to be increasingly militant, marked by greater sophistication in training and arms, sources said. Advocacy group Jubiliee...
Nov 10, 2016 | News & Stories
ANGWAN MALLAM CHUNG, Nigeria, November 9, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Sunday Maidawa, a Christian in this town in southern Kaduna state, feels the loss of his brother and sister-in-law daily in the four children left to him. Muslim Fulani herdsmen two years ago killed...
Nov 7, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 3, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a village in eastern Uganda on Sunday (Oct. 30) gutted the home of a Christian family for housing two boys threatened with violence for leaving Islam, sources said. Stephen Muganzi, 41, told Morning Star...
Nov 3, 2016 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, November 2, 2016(Morning Star News) – Contrary to the reasons communist guerrillas in India gave for murdering a pastor in July, area church leaders said he was killed for carrying out his Christian calling. Communist Party of India (Maoist) guerrillas...
Nov 1, 2016 | News & Stories
October 31, 2016 (Morning Star News) – An emergency order issued over the weekend makes it significantly easier for Turkey to deport expatriates, further unsettling foreign Christians after the government this month ordered the deportation two U.S. Christians. The...
Nov 1, 2016 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, October 30, 2016 (Morning Star News) – The future education of more than 1,000 pupils was unclear after authorities closed down a Christian school in eastern Sudan last week, sources said. Civilians who bused in from Khartoum and elsewhere aided...