Iran: Update on Christians summoned to serve sentences   On 30 August MEC requested prayer for Iranian Christians ordered to present themselves at Evin Prison for their sentences to be carried out. Since then, Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has started serving his 10-year prison sentence and Christian convert Malihe Nazari is in the temporary quarantine section of Evin Prison, sentenced … Read More

Targeted attack suspected. By Our Nigeria Correspondent ABUJA, Nigeria, September 2, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian posted in Yola, northeast Nigeria, as part of his youth service corps duty was killed on Aug. 26 in what was suspected as a targeted attack, sources said. Samaila Sabo Awudu was assaulted by at least five men with machetes at about 1:30 … Read More

Those accused on spurious grounds spend years in jail. By Our Pakistan Correspondent LAHORE, Pakistan, August 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians accused of blasphemy, including one who has spent four years in jail, have obtained bail from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sources said. Following the release on bail earlier last week of another Christian accused of blasphemy, … Read More

Iran: Christians summoned to serve sentences   Iranian Christians request prayer for four Christians who were ordered on 28 August to present themselves at Evin Prison for their sentences to be carried out.     On 30 June 2020 a gathering of around 30 Christians in a private home in Tehran was raided by security agents. Among those arrested were … Read More

Suspected Fulani shoot her as she cleans building for Sunday service. By Our Nigeria Correspondent ABUJA, Nigeria, August 29, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen in Plateau state, Nigeria on Saturday (Aug. 27) shot and killed a Christian woman as she cleaned her church building, sources said. Lyop Dalyop was sweeping and cleaning the Church of Christ in Nations … Read More

Pastors and other workers arrested.By the Editor August 26, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in China on Aug. 19 officially “liquidated” an historical house church in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, as part of a crackdown on churches that refuse to join the state-controlled Three-Self Church, rights advocates said. The Church of Abundance, which began about 30 years ago, had been targeted as … Read More

Justice expresses concern over abuses of law. By Our Pakistan Correspondent LAHORE, Pakistan, August 24, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 23) granted bail to a Christian in a blasphemy case, with one of the justices expressing concern over blatant misuse of the law, the attorney of the accused said. Attorney … Read More

Separately, 14-year-old Nayab Gill escapes captors, sources say. By Our Pakistan Correspondent LAHORE, Pakistan, August 23, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Refusing to review evidence from a Christian couple trying to recover their 12-year-old daughter after she was allegedly kidnapped and forced to convert and marry, a judge in Pakistan last week denied them custody, sources said. Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan … Read More

ISWAP threatens to marry Christian abducted in train attack. By Our Nigeria Correspondent ABUJA, Nigeria, August 22, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Islamic terrorists in southern Nigeria kidnapped four nuns on Sunday (Aug. 21), three days after suspected Fulani herdsmen shot a Christian attorney to death in the country’s northwest, sources said. Benedict Azza, director of the legal department of the … Read More

Catholic catechist kidnapped. By Our Nigeria Correspondent ABUJA, Nigeria, August 17, 2022 (Morning Star News) – After more than 20 Christians lost their lives to terrorist attacks in two areas of Taraba state, Nigeria in the first half of August, a Catholic teacher on Sunday (Aug. 14) was kidnapped from a church site, sources said. Suspected members of the Islamic State … Read More