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...
Jul 21, 2016 | News & Stories
, the Rev. Peter Yein Reith and the Rev. Yat Michael, with crimes calling for the death penalty due to their efforts to defend the church against the illegal sale of its property to the Muslim business interest. They were released following eight months in prison....
Jul 16, 2016 | News & Stories
, the Rev. Peter Yein Reith and the Rev. Yat Michael, with crimes calling for the death penalty due to their efforts to defend the church against the illegal sale of its property to the Muslim business interest. They were released following eight months in prison....
Jul 16, 2016 | News & Stories
Unspeakable pain accompanies the fond memories and martyr theology. When on Saturday (July 9) some of Pastor Elisha’s children overheard neighborhood kids playing soccer say that a woman who preaches regularly had been killed, they rushed home to ask him if she had...
Jul 15, 2016 | News & Stories
Though the center was filled with male drug addicts, she was an obedient and respectful prisoner. After many months, the warden told her to write a description of her conversion to Christianity, instructing her to blame Christians for fraudulently or forcibly...
Jun 24, 2016 | News & Stories
on June 4. The body of Yokannah Zirinkuma of Kasasira village, Kibuku District, was found in a pool of blood in nearby Kadama village, near the home of the primary suspect. Zirinkuma was 50. On May 15 in Kasecha village, Kibuku District, Micah Byamukama, pastor of...
Jun 16, 2016 | News & Stories
New Dynamic Creates Opportunity China’s territorial expansion in and militarization of the South China Sea has Vietnam looking for friends and allies. This new dynamic gives Western democracies more leverage with Vietnam than they have had in years. What...