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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...