Oct 11, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 7, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Church members in a northeastern town in Kenya fear for their lives after Islamic extremists targeted Christians in a grenade and gun attack early Thursday morning (Oct. 6) that killed six people, sources said....
Oct 6, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 5, 2016(Morning Star News) – A pastor, his wife and their nine children have been sleeping on the floor of their small church building on the island of Zanzibar since Muslim extremists set their house on fire in August. Pastor Damson Maonesho...
Oct 1, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 30, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Turkey last night arrested the five Muslim nationalists convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. A source told...
Oct 1, 2016 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, September 29, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Christian workers imprisoned under charges related to tarnishing Sudan’s image are innocent, but their arrests serve the Sudanese government as a warning to others against criticizing the Islamist regime,...
Sep 29, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 28, 2016(Morning Star News) – After a nine-year legal saga, a Turkish criminal court today sentenced five men to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. The Malatya First Heavy Penal Court...
Sep 13, 2016 | News & Stories
JUBA, South Sudan, September 13, 2016(Morning Star News) – Authorities in southeastern Sudan arrested the headmaster of a Christian school last week and took over its property, sources said. Armed police and officials from the National Intelligence and Security...
Sep 11, 2016 | News & Stories
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 8, 2016 (Morning Star News) – While Muslim villagers continue to persecute Christians in eastern Uganda, Islamists last month killed a Christian in the western part of the country, sources said. The blood-stained body of a convert from Islam,...
Sep 7, 2016 | News & Stories
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 3, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Sentenced to prison in Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam in a video, four Coptic teenagers who had taken refuge in Turkey for months on Thursday (Sept. 1) flew to Switzerland to seek asylum. In exclusive...
Sep 7, 2016 | News & Stories
LAFIA, Nigeria, Sept. 2, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A 60-year-old Christian farmer was hacked to death with machetes last week, the latest victim of attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state who have burned church buildings and homes and destroyed crops in...
Aug 23, 2016 | News & Stories
under the guise of policemen, beat him brutally, shaved half of his head, eyebrows and mustache, and paraded him on a donkey for about half an hour. The pastor was later charged with forcible conversion. Tribal Factor Findings from Bastar District in Chhattisgarh...
Aug 18, 2016 | News & Stories
killed 13 people Aug. 1-3. Saleh said Nigerian police evacuated the corpses of Saturday’s attack at about noon on Sundayand took them to Kafanchan General Hospital. The victims were to be buried on Wednesday(Aug 17). The Rev. Dr. Sunday Ibrahim, secretary of the state...
Aug 9, 2016 | News & Stories
August 8, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were among four activists convicted under fabricated charges of “subverting state power” in China last week. The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced house-church leader Hu Shigen, 61, on Wednesday...