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...
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...