Speaker cited Koran in campaign in Uganda. By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, March 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hardline Muslims who grew furious at the preaching of a speaker at an open-air evangelistic event last week in eastern Uganda beat him to death and burned his body, sources said. John Michael Okero was quoting verses from the Koran … Read More

Hardline Muslims upset with presence of Christian worship. By Our Sudan Correspondent JUBA, South Sudan, March 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut, sources said. Hardline Muslims locked the building of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in … Read More

Villagers accuse church leader of fraudulent conversion. By Our India Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said. The eight assailants, including … Read More

Iran: Nine converts acquitted by Appeal Court   Today (28 February) a verdict was issued by Branch 34 of Tehran’s Appeal Court overturning the convictions of nine Christian converts from Rasht.     The nine – Abdolreza (Matthias) Haghnejad, Khalil Daeghanpour, Hossein Kadivar, Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad Vafadar, Mohammad (Sharooz) Eslamdoust, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Khatibi and Behnam Akhlaghi – were initially … Read More

Church building burned in another attack on area in northeast.   By Our Nigeria Correspondent ABUJA, Nigeria, February 28, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday (Feb. 25) killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents said. Besides the Christians killed in the attack on Kautikari village, Borno state, … Read More

Iranian Christians request prayer for Christian converts Ayoub Poor-Rezazade, Morteza Mashhoodkari and Ahmad Sarparast, who are awaiting a verdict after being charged for “deviant propaganda” under Article 500 of the Penal Code. Ayoub, Morteza and Ahmad were initially arrested at a prayer meeting on 5 September 2021 in Rasht. Arresting agents used force, behaved insultingly, and refused to show warrants. … Read More

Muslim 20-year-old accepted Christ that morning. By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, February 18, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Before Sadi Bwanga could make it home from the church service in eastern Uganda where he had just put his faith in Christ, Muslim relatives found out and intercepted him. Bwanga, 20, had prayed to receive Christ at the Feb. 6 … Read More

By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, February 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a Christian evangelist on Feb. 6 beat and tied him up to be burned to death after he returned home for a funeral in eastern Uganda, he said. Malingumu Bruhan, 34, returned to Kaliro District for his grandfather’s funeral in Muhira village, Nawaikoke, and … Read More

Draconian measures contravene constitution, attorney says. By the Editor February 14, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Unregistered house churches that have relied on online gatherings and teaching to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and persecution will have that option taken away under draconian measures taking effect on March 1, sources said. Churches, seminaries and other ministries have been shaken by the government announcement … Read More

Extremists beat them, burn Bible. By Our India Correspondent NEW DELHI, February 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Hindu extremist mob on Jan. 28 attacked two pastors in northern India, setting the Bible of one on fire as he blacked out from the beating, he said. Accusing the pastors of luring the family they were visiting with money to … Read More