

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...

Algeria: Sentence upheld by appeal court
JOS, Nigeria, September 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a Christian at a worship service in Kaduna state, Nigeria on Sunday (Sept. 26), and 30 others were slain in attacks later that night, sources said. The herdsmen attacked the worship service...

Court in Pakistan Gives Custody of Christian Girl to Alleged Kidnapper
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan have found a 14-year-old Christian girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forced to marry and convert to Islam, but a court on Thursday (Sept. 23) rejected her family’s attempt to recover her,...

Iran: Situation of arrested convert unknown
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – An 83-year-old Christian woman in eastern Uganda continues to receive hospital treatment two weeks after Islamic extremists, one posing as a pastor, attacked her, sources said. Harriet Namuganza had given refuge...

Iran: Convert summoned to serve three-year sentence
NEW DELHI, India, September 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 14-year-old Christian boy in eastern India is fighting for his life a month after suspected Hindu extremists threw flammable liquid on him and set him on fire, sources said. “He is very, very critical,” said...

Muslim Gunmen in Pakistan Wound at least Four Christians
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in an area of Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (Sept. 6) fired high-powered weapons at the homes of Christians, wounding a pregnant woman and at least three other people, sources said. A wounded Christian...

Libya: New hearing date for church
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 8, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda last week boarded a boat in which a young evangelist was fishing and killed him, sources said. Dante Tambika, also known as Patrick, was beaten and strangled to death near...

Middle East: Married couple needs new country
JOS, Nigeria, September 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and suspected local Muslims killed 40 Christians in and near Jos, Nigeria in attacks on Aug. 25 and Aug. 15, sources said. Armed with machetes and guns, herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian...

Hard-Line Hindus Beat Christian Unconscious in Tamil Nadu State, India
HYDERABAD, India, September 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state is in hiding after hard-line Hindu neighbors beat him unconscious with iron rods last month, sources said. Santosh Kumar, 35, left his home on Aug. 1 shortly...