

Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India
NEW DELHI, March 9, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests, sources said. Accusing...

Hardline Muslims Kill Evangelist at Open-Air Event
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...

Church Building Locked, Leaders Arrested in Sudan
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...

Iran: Nine converts acquitted by Appeal Court
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,...

Iran: Judge pressured to deliver hasty verdict
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...

New Christian in Uganda Seriously Injured after Church Service
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...

Evangelist in Uganda Beaten, Tied Up To Be Burned for Converting
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...

Online Crackdown Threatens Christians in China
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....

Algeria: Another church closure threatened
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...

Iran: Court to review convert’s 10-year prison sentence
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists on Saturday (Jan. 29) stopped an evangelist on his way to participate in a debate about Christianity and Islam in Kampala, Uganda and beat him unconscious, he said. Charles Kamya, 43, said he...

Lay Pastor Slain, Priest Wounded in Peshawar, Northwestern Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 31, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Church of Pakistan lay pastor was gunned down and a priest wounded by unknown assailants as the leaders drove home from a worship service on Sunday (Jan. 30) in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar,...

Fulanis Kill 11 Christians in Attack in Northern Nigeria, Sources Say
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 31, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Jan. 30) killed 11 Christians in an attack in northern Nigeria, sources said. Danjuma Enoch said his grandmother, known as Mama Fide, was burned to death in the attack at 3 a.m. in...

Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Kill 22 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 28, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Plateau state on Saturday (Jan. 22), after 18 Christians were slain in another area of the state on Jan. 11, sources said. In the two attacks, eight other...

Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Succumbs to Injuries
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity died on Tuesday (Jan. 25), succumbing to injuries sustained when Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, sources said. Pastor Bashir Sengendo, a...

Hostility toward Christians Grows in District in Northern India
HYDERABAD, India, January 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Intense opposition to Christianity grew in an area of northern India in the past month as a Hindu mob invited news media to record them reviling a house church gathering, and another pastor and his family were...

Islamic Extremist Terrorists Kill, Kidnap Christians in Northeast Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 25, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Four Christians were killed and 22 girls kidnapped in Islamic extremist attacks on Thursday (Jan. 20) and Jan. 14 in the Chibok area of Borno state, Nigeria, sources said. Islamic State West Africa Province...

Iran: Christians released early from prison
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 24, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity is still hospitalized with serious head, back and hand injuries after Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, he said. Bashir Sengendo had not...

Iran: Released pastor rearrested on old charges
ABUJA, Nigeria, January 21, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen last week killed three Christians in attacks in Nigeria, where more Christians were killed for their faith last year than in any other country, sources said. Three Christians were killed...

Another Christian Girl Allegedly Forced to Convert/Marry in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 14, 2022 (Morning Star News) – The abduction and forced conversion of Christian girls in Pakistan continued with impunity as another minor was separated from her parents the first week of the year, sources said. Mahnoor Ashraf, a 14-year-old...

Libya: Authorities act against Christmas celebrations
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 12, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda beat a widow and her 16-year-old daughter unconscious on Dec. 30, leaving the girl unable to walk a year after killing her father, sources said. Suffering from an apparent...