Christian Parents in Pakistan Regain Custody of 14-Year-Old Daughter
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Wednesday (Dec. 22) handed custody of a 14-year-old girl back to her Christian parents after she testified that she wished to return to them from a shelter home, sources said. The Sindh...
Ethnic Somali Muslims in Kenya Break Pastor’s Leg
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Somali-born pastor in Kenya is still in severe pain after ethnic Somali Muslims in northeastern Kenya beat him on Dec. 3 for leaving Islam, sources said. The pastor, whose name is withheld for security reasons,...
Iran: Prosecutor decides against charging converts
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Terrorists with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Sunday (Dec. 19) killed 12 Christians in an attack in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, sources said. The Islamic extremist militants attacked...
Kidnapped Pastor in Northern Nigeria Slain despite Ransom Payment
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen who kidnapped a Christian pastor outside the city of Kaduna in northern Nigeria killed him last week after receiving ransom payments, sources said. The Rev. Dauda Bature of the First Evangelical...
Fulani Herdsmen Attack Christians near City of Kaduna, Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in northern Nigeria wounded a pregnant woman and set houses on fire on Saturday (Dec. 11) in attacks on predominantly Christian villages near the city of Kaduna, sources said. Prompt action by the...
Algeria: Continued prayer needed for appeal
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, December 8, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian convert from Islam on Dec. 1 received a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 Algerian dinars (US$716) from an appeals court on a conviction of "accepting donations without a...
Pastor, Wife Arrested on Baseless Charges in Northern India
NEW DELHI, December 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in northern India disrupted a house church service, interrogated a pastor and signalled police to arrest him and his wife on baseless charges of fraudulent conversion, sources said. Pastor Lal Chand,...
Threatening Letters Terrorize Christians in Northwest Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christians in northwest Nigeria are living in terror after receiving letters threatening death unless they close their churches, sources said. A police spokesman said Zamfara State Police have beefed up security...
Three Children among 10 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, November 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians, including three children, in an attack in Plateau state, Nigeria in the early hours of Friday (Nov. 26), sources said. It was the second attack on Christians in Bassa County in...
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...