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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,...

Algeria: Sentence upheld by appeal court

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...

Iran: Situation of arrested convert unknown

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

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

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

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

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...