Nov 1, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, October 29, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Three Iranian Christians sentenced to receive 80 lashes for drinking wine during a Communion service filed an appeal Wednesday (Oct. 25) to have their case overturned, a noted advocacy group reported. In a trial that...
Oct 28, 2016 | News & Stories
NEW DELHI, October 28, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in Maharashtra state had severely beaten a pastor, pointed a gun at his head and were sprinkling gasoline on him to burn him to death when he began praying and praising Jesus. Pastor Prashant...
Oct 28, 2016 | News & Stories
an SCOC building on Oct. 27, 2015 without prior warning, church leaders said. Local authorities said the SCOC building was on government land, a claim church leaders adamantly denied. Karari officials in Omdurman, across the Nile River from Khartoum, reportedly...
Oct 27, 2016 | News & Stories
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, October 27, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A civil court in Cuba sentenced the pastor of a house church to a year of house arrest on Saturday (Oct. 22) for loud worship services, sources said. Juan Carlos Nuñez received the hastily delivered sentence...
Oct 26, 2016 | News & Stories
DOGON FILI, Nigeria, October 26, 2016(Morning Star News) – Several people advised me that it was not safe to go to Godogodo in southern Kaduna state, but it was imperative to verify reports of violence against Christians in Nigeria, as authorities and mainstream media...
Oct 26, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 25, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists targeted Christians in the shooting deaths of 12 non-local Kenyans at a guest-house in Kenya’s northeastern town of Mandera early this morning, sources said. Somali Al Shabaab rebels took...
Oct 26, 2016 | News & Stories
LAHORE, Pakistan, October 22, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Defying a court order, police in Punjab Province forcibly evicted a pastor and his family from their home this week after Muslims attacked in a bid to seize the property, sources said. Pastor Michael Robert of...
Oct 21, 2016 | News & Stories
October 21, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A Christian family of six and 10 other relatives are facing hunger and illness in Chiapas, Mexico after local officials drove them from their land for non-compliance with a “traditionalist” mix of indigenous pagan and Catholic...
Oct 21, 2016 | News & Stories
GODOGODO, Nigeria, October 19, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 40 Christians in an attack in this town in northern Nigeria on Saturday (Oct. 15) and left another eight dead in an assault three weeks earlier, area leaders said....
Oct 17, 2016 | News & Stories
October 14, 2016 (Morning Star News) – In October 2012, the South China Morning Post ran a series of articles on China’s looming leadership transition. One line might prove prophetic, although not in the way intended: “For clues about how China’s leader-in-waiting Xi...
Oct 14, 2016 | News & Stories
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, October 13, 2016 (Morning Star News) – As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan’s highest profile blasphemy case, the country’s Supreme Court today delayed ruling on an appeal against the death sentence given to...
Oct 14, 2016 | News & Stories
the seven other school staff and local church members. Arrested on the school premises, they were held until Sunday (Oct. 9), Pastor Suliman said. They were released after paying a total of 30,000 Sudanese Pounds (US$4,870) in bail, accused of resisting authorities in...