

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...

Christian’s Prison Term Changed to Death Sentence in Pakistan
NEW DELHI, January 11, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A young father knows the intensity of Hindu opposition to Christianity in his native Nepal – it temporarily took his newborn son from him and has left his young family homeless for nearly two years. Having moved in...

North Cyprus: New charges brought against Ryan Keating
OAXACA DE JUAREZ, Mexico, January 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in southern Mexico jailed on Monday (Jan. 3) were released Thursday afternoon (Jan. 6), according to news reports. In the village of San Pedro Chimaltepec, near San Juan Mazatlan Mixe in...

Muslim Extremists Kill Six Christians in Coastal Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 7, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Kenya, including suspected militants from Somalia, killed six Christians in southeastern Kenya between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Monday (Jan. 3), sources said. Members and sympathizers of Somali...

Three Christians Jailed without Trial in Southern Mexico
OAXACA DE JUAREZ, Mexico, January 6, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians in southern Mexico were jailed on Monday (Jan. 3) for declining to help pay for the festival of a “traditionalist” mix of Catholic and indigenous religion last month, according to local...

Hindu Nationalists Stop Christmas Services in Northern India
NEW DELHI, India, January 5, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in northern India launched an attack on a house church service on Dec. 25 that seriously injured a pastor’s son, one of at least 10 cases of aggression in Haryana state that stopped Christmas...

Iran: Convert from Karaj summoned to court
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in central Uganda is suspected of hanging his wife and two children because the young mother and oldest child received Christ after Christmas Day and Sunday worship services, sources said. A neighbor on...

Hindu Extremists Attack Christian-Run School in Madhya Pradesh, India
NEW DELHI, January 3, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Incited by false information on YouTube, a mob of hundreds of Hindu extremists last month threw stones that smashed through the glass of a Christian-run school in Madhya Pradesh, India where 12th-grade students were...

Iran: Pastor released from prison
NEW DELHI, December 31, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christian relatives of a convert who fled to India from Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban seized power described days of terror before they were able to leave the country. The Christian refugee in...