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Dozens of Christians Slain as Nigeria Moves Off CPC List

Dozens of Christians Slain as Nigeria Moves Off CPC List

JOS, Nigeria, November 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Less than a week after the U.S. removal of Nigeria’s designation as engaging in or tolerating violations of religious freedom, Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Nov. 23) killed two more Christian farmers in Plateau...

Algeria: Pastor summoned to court

Algeria: Pastor summoned to court

NEW DELHI, November 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists influenced by Hindu extremists in central India last month forced Christians to exhume the body of a 25-year-old man buried on relatives’ private land because they didn’t want a Christian interred in...

Iran: Converts summoned to prison

Iran: Converts summoned to prison

November 9, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam have questioned a pastoral couple and 11 congregation members in the criminal prosecution of a church facing wild accusations of starting a COVID-19 outbreak, sources said. Police in Go...

Middle East: Pray for couple’s resettlement interview

Middle East: Pray for couple’s resettlement interview

HYDERABAD, India, November 1, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Raj Masih and his three children have not been able to return home to their village in eastern India since Sept. 28, when Hindu extremists attacked him. “I returned home bruised that night. My children...

Algeria: Imminent appeal hearing

Algeria: Imminent appeal hearing

JOS, Nigeria, October 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A medical doctor and pastor who headed a wholistic Christian ministry in northeast Nigeria was shot to death on Oct. 14, sources said. Dr. Habila Solomon, president of Charity and Hope Ministry based in Jauro Yinu...

Muslim Relatives Beat, Starve Christians in Eastern Uganda

Muslim Relatives Beat, Starve Christians in Eastern Uganda

NAIROBI, Kenya, October 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her young son on Monday (Oct. 18) escaped the bedroom where her Muslim husband had starved them for two weeks, a day before another Christian convert was beaten but escaped being set aflame,...

Hindu Extremists Beat, Rob Worshippers in India

Hindu Extremists Beat, Rob Worshippers in India

NEW DELHI, October 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists beat and looted worshippers in northern India on Oct. 3, leaving one man unconscious, another with ruptured eardrums and others with internal and external injuries, sources said. More than 200 members...

Iran: Missing convert located

Iran: Missing convert located

NEW DELHI, October 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Threatened with death even before the Taliban took power in mid-August, a young Christian woman who fled to India could be forced to return to Afghanistan when her visa expires in a few days, she said. Esin (name...

Kidnapped Christian Killed in Rescue Effort in Nigeria

Kidnapped Christian Killed in Rescue Effort in Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria, October 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A kidnapped Christian in Kogi state, Nigeria was killed in a rescue operation on Saturday (Oct. 2), the same day three other Christians were killed in another attack in the state, sources said. Julius Oshadumo, 78...

Muslim Mob Kills Pastor in Kano State, Nigeria

Muslim Mob Kills Pastor in Kano State, Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria, October 1, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob in northern Nigeria agitated over the killing of a woman by a man they believed had converted to Christianity hacked a pastor to death with machetes last week and burned down his home, church and school,...