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...
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...