

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
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...

Christian in Pakistan Sentenced to Death for ‘Blasphemy’ Acquitted
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Pakistan incarcerated for nearly 10 years on a false blasphemy conviction was released from prison on Nov. 9 after a high court acquitted him, but quietly to avoid Islamist outrage, his attorney...

Historic Bail for Nurses Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan, Lawyer Says
LAHORE, Pakistan, November 19, 2021 (Morning Star News) – In an unprecedented court decision in Pakistan kept secret for two months to avoid Islamist backlash, a trial court judge granted bail to two Christian nurses charged with “defiling the Koran,” their attorney...

Christian Previously Beaten Lured into Lethal Trap, Sources Say
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Brothers of a Christian convert in eastern Uganda on Nov. 2 lured him to a site more than six hours away where they and other Muslim extremists killed him for leaving Islam, sources said. Police from Kabango...

Pastor Slain for Refusing to Remove Church Building in Eastern Uganda
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 15, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Saying a church pastor would “face the wrath from Allah” for refusing to remove his church building, Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda on Oct. 26 killed him on his animals’ grazing fields, sources said. Pastor...

Muslim Extremists Suspected in Killing of Church Elder in Uganda
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 11, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the killing of a 60-year-old Christian elder who had led Muslims to Christ, sources said. The decapitated body of Alex Mukasa of Busandha B village, Bukoova...

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...

Hindu Nationalist Mob in India Holds Christians against their Will
NEW DELHI, November 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Hours after a Hindu nationalist mob assaulted and held more than 60 Christians against their will in central India under accusations of forcible conversion last month, police detained the Christians rather than the...

Two Christians Killed, Dozens Abducted in Attack on Church in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, November 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were killed in an attack on a church service in southern Kaduna state on Sunday (Oct. 31), with eight others slain in earlier assaults on predominantly Christian villages, sources said. The lethal...

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
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
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
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...

Police Beat Christians in Custody in Uttar Pradesh State, India
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 15, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Two men in eastern Uganda have been charged with murder in the Sept. 12 killing of an evangelist the suspects had harassed and threatened for his role in bringing Muslims to faith in Christ, sources said. Pastor...

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
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
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,...

Hindu Extremists Beat Pastors at Police Station in Central India
NEW DELHI, September 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Hindu nationalist mob this month beat three pastors and manhandled an officer at a police station in the capital of central India’s Chhattisgarh state, sources said. Police disrupted the worship of New Life...

Iran: Christian convert still missing; three others facing a new appeal hearing
JOS, Nigeria, September 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The killing of the Rev. Silas Yakubu Ali and more than 50 other Christians in an area of Kaduna state, Nigeria in the past two months shows that Christians are under siege from Muslim Fulani herdsmen, community...