

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...

Iraq: Convert requests prayer
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 31, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim supervisor is threatening to file blasphemy charges against a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan if she refuses to withdraw her sexual assault accusation against him, a human rights leader said....

Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill 36 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, August 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 36 Christians in multiple attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria this month with impunity, while a church leader complained that authorities arrested only Christians for defending themselves. The...

Iran: Prison sentences for Christian converts reduced
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a former Islamic teacher in Uganda who became a Christian set a trap for him last month, hiring killers to bury him alive in a large ant mound, sources said. Saban Sajabi, 32, had gained repute...

Soldiers Complicit in Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria, Christians Say
JOS, Nigeria, August 25, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Soldiers and security personnel failed to intervene this month as Fulani herdsmen killed 70 Christians in one area of Plateau state, Nigeria, while in other areas soldiers helped herdsmen destroy farmland, Christian...

Pastor’s Wife, 19-Year-Old Injured in Attack on Christians in Northern India
HYDERABAD, India, August 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor’s wife is still bed-ridden after hard-line Sikhs and Hindus broke her leg in an attack on their church last month in northern India, sources said. Carrying swords and wooden rods, the assailants also...

Muslim Father Kills Son for His Christian Faith, Sources Say
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Muslim father of a 20-year-old convert to Christianity in Uganda on Sunday (Aug. 15) killed him for refusing to recant his faith, sources said. Kasimu Kawona of Bupalama village, Buseta Sub-County in Kibuku...

Sudan Detains Bible Shipment, Christian Leaders Say
JUBA, South Sudan, August 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders in Sudan said government officials have detained a shipment of Bibles by demanding customs fees from which it is exempt. The Rev. Saad Idris Komi, chairman of the Sudan Pentecostal Church, said...

Woman Survives Attempt on Her Life for Becoming Christian
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Muslim brother of a woman in eastern Uganda attacked her with a knife and spear on Aug. 8 after discovering she was a Christian, the mother of two said. In a village near Kasasira, Kibuku District undisclosed...

Turkey: Banned Expatriate Christians appeal to European Court
HYDERABAD, India, August 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Three Christians are in jail after hard-line Hindus in northern India last week beat two of them, both pastors, and a Hindu they were comforting in the loss of his family to COVID-19. Hindu neighbors from the...

Mother Beaten Unconscious for Leaving Islam, Marrying Christian
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A mother of four children in eastern Uganda remains in pain after her Muslim father beat her and forced her to take mosquito repellant when he learned that she had left Islam and her Muslim husband and married a...

Somaliland: Christians released
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – When Gulzar Masih’s 14-year-old daughter did not return home from school in Faisalabad, Pakistan on July 27, the rickshaw driver and his brother set out to find her. Reaching the school later that afternoon, they...

Sikhs Beat, Choke Christian Women in Northern India
NEW DELHI, August 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 24-year-old Christian woman in northern India regained the ability to speak nearly a month after she went into shock from a Sikh family choking her unconscious and attacking her sister and mother, sources said. Meenu...