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Dozens More Christians Killed in Benue State, Nigeria

Dozens More Christians Killed in Benue State, Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Continuing attacks earlier this month in Benue state, Nigeria, suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed dozens of Christians on Friday (Sept. 23) and Wednesday (Sept. 21), sources said. The...

Hindu Relatves Suspected of Killing Christian in India

Hindu Relatves Suspected of Killing Christian in India

NEW DELHI, September 23, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Christians in eastern India suspect a church member’s Hindu family killed him last month for refusing to renounce his faith, sources said. In West Bengal state’s Gobindapur village, Jhargram District, Hindu relatives...

Kidnappers Raid Denomination in Two Areas of Nigeria

Kidnappers Raid Denomination in Two Areas of Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 22, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Saturday (Sept. 17) abducted dozens of Christians from a church service in northwest Nigeria, less than a week after kidnapping nearly 60 members of the same denomination in the...

Terrorists Kill 25 Christians in Benue State, Nigeria

Terrorists Kill 25 Christians in Benue State, Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 21, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed three Christians in Benue state, Nigeria on Sunday (Sept. 18), after slaughtering at least 22 others in the same area in past three weeks, sources said. The...

Turkey: Plot to kill church leaders?

Turkey: Plot to kill church leaders?

JUBA, South Sudan, September 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A court in Sudan on Sept. 8 dismissed apostasy charges against four Christians who were threatened with the death penalty unless they recanted, sources said. Judge Ibrahim Hamza dismissed the apostasy charges...

Libya: Convert sentenced to death for apostasy

Libya: Convert sentenced to death for apostasy

  ABUJA, Nigeria, September 14, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Sept. 11) killed a Christian security guard as they abducted a pastor in central Nigeria and wounded the church leader’s wife, sources said. James Ngyang, a member of...

Five Christians Thrown Off Boat and Drowned in Uganda

Five Christians Thrown Off Boat and Drowned in Uganda

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists killed five Christian workers by throwing them off a boat into central Uganda’s Lake Kyoga on Aug. 10, sources said. The evangelists from End Time Word Ministry church were traveling from...

Sudan: Judge declines to let case proceed to court

Sudan: Judge declines to let case proceed to court

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (Sept. 1) killed six Christians in central Nigeria, and the next day animists attacked a night prayer service in the country’s southwest, area residents and officials said. The...

Iran: Update on Christians summoned to serve sentences

Iran: Update on Christians summoned to serve sentences

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Somali pastor of a secret fellowship in Kenya is still recovering from an infected wound after attacks on him, his wife and child for leaving Islam, he said. The 33-year-old pastor, who was still in pain this...

Iran: Christians summoned to serve sentences

Iran: Christians summoned to serve sentences

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...

China ‘Liquidates’ House Church as Part of Crackdown

China ‘Liquidates’ House Church as Part of Crackdown

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...

Sudan: Court hearing for Christians accused of apostasy

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...

Terrorists Kill Christian Lawyer, Kidnap Nuns in Nigeria

Terrorists Kill Christian Lawyer, Kidnap Nuns in Nigeria

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,...

Iran: Convert couple detained in Evin Prison

Iran: Convert couple detained in Evin Prison

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,...

Muslim Extremists Cut Off Hand of Christian Convert

Muslim Extremists Cut Off Hand of Christian Convert

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda last month cut off the hand of a 42-year-old father who left Islam to become a Christian in June, sources said. Musa John Kasadah of Maumo village, Luuka District was ambushed on...

Terrorists Kill, Kidnap Christians in Northern Nigeria

Terrorists Kill, Kidnap Christians in Northern Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria, August 10, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim terrorists in northern Nigeria killed an 86-year-old Christian in his home on Aug. 2 and kidnapped two others who were later released, likely after ransom payments, sources said. The gunmen killed...

Pastor Fears for His Life following Death Threats

Pastor Fears for His Life following Death Threats

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 8, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A month after a Christian was killed in Kiboga District, Uganda, a pastor in the same district fears for his life following death threats from Muslim extremists, he said. Pastor Godfrey Ssemujju, who oversees 130...