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Christian Widow, Muslim Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan

Christian Widow, Muslim Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan, April 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Christian widow and a Muslim gardener were arrested in Pakistan this month on blasphemy charges after they were accused of intentionally burning papers containing koranic verses, attorneys said. The accusations...

Lay Evangelist Stabbed to Death in Uganda

Lay Evangelist Stabbed to Death in Uganda

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists this month killed a Christian who was effective in leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda, sources said. Engineer Herbert of Sironko District was stabbed to death in the Namakwekwe area of...

Jihadists Bomb Christians’ Good Friday Service in Uganda

Jihadists Bomb Christians’ Good Friday Service in Uganda

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 17, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists exploded a fuel bomb during a church’s Good Friday night service in western Uganda on April 7, sources said. The explosion at NABI Pentecostal church in Biguli, Kamwenge District damaged part of...

Local Officials Seal Church Building Shut in Indonesia

Local Officials Seal Church Building Shut in Indonesia

SURABAYA, Indonesia, April 6, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Local officials sealed shut a church building in West Java Province, Indonesia on Saturday (April 1), two weeks after Muslims intruded into a worship service and demanded its closure, church leaders said. The...

Muslim Relatives Kill Pastor for His Faith

Muslim Relatives Kill Pastor for His Faith

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 29, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor on Thursday (March 23) in Kaduna state, Nigeria two weeks after terrorists killed a Baptist pastor’s son in the same state, sources said. The Rev. Musa Mairimi of the Evangelical...

North Cyprus: Some charges withdrawn

North Cyprus: Some charges withdrawn

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 27, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed 27 Christians in two attacks this month in Kaduna state, Nigeria, local sources said. Both attacks took place in Zangon Kataf County, where 10 Christians were killed on...

Church in Indonesia Stands Up to Attempt to Stop Worship

Church in Indonesia Stands Up to Attempt to Stop Worship

SURABAYA, Indonesia, March 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A church in West Java Province, Indonesia refused to yield to Muslim intruders’ attempts to stop their worship service on Sunday (March 19), the pastor said. About 60 miles southeast of Jakarta, two Muslims...

North Cyprus: Prayer for upcoming hearing

North Cyprus: Prayer for upcoming hearing

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on March 15 seriously injured a pastor and his 14-year-old son as they were preparing for an all-night prayer vigil at their church site in eastern Uganda, sources said. Pastor John Balidawa, 35,...

Israel: Court hearing for Messianic ministry

Israel: Court hearing for Messianic ministry

JUBA, South Sudan, March 19, 2023 (Morning Star News) – For leaving Islam to accept Christ, a young mother in Sudan was chained in her home, subjected to electrical shocks at a psychiactric hospital and has lost her children, a local source said. Awatif Abdalla Kaki,...

Iran: Another Christian convert pardoned and released

Iran: Another Christian convert pardoned and released

SURABAYA, Indonesia, March 13, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a village in northeastern Indonesia’s portion of Borneo Island prohibited a church from constructing a worship building, sources said. Local leaders of Selumit village, in Tarakan City in North...

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani released

Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani released

March 5, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, once sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy, was the third Christian convert recently released from prison as part of the government’s annual amnesty marking the anniversary of the 1979 revolution....

Israel: Opposition to Messianic ministry

Israel: Opposition to Messianic ministry

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 26, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Uganda have arrested two people in connection with the kidnapping of 40 Christian children lured by a Muslim posing as the leader of a Christian charity offering free education, sources said. In Arua,...

Christians’ Sunday Worship Broken Up in Indonesia

Christians’ Sunday Worship Broken Up in Indonesia

SURABAYA, Indonesia, February 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A local village official in Indonesia stopped a church service on Sunday (Feb. 19) in what became a mob intrusion, sources said. On western Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, the head of the Rukun Tetangga area of...

Christian Leader Arrested during Open-Air Event in Sudan

Christian Leader Arrested during Open-Air Event in Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan, February 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in southeastern Sudan on Friday (Feb. 17) arrested a church leader for preaching to Muslims, according to a local Christian group. Yousif Ayoub Hussein Ali was detained during an open-air worship...