LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court (LHC) today acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on charges of blaspheming Islam, their attorney said. Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh accepted an appeal...

NEW DELHI, June 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Relatives of a pastor in northern India killed his Christian father with axe and sword blows and seriously wounded the church leader and his brother for leaving tribal religion, sources said. While local media and police...

June 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A house-church organization in Vietnam is facing government prosecution and community hate due to COVID-19, sources said. A couple who attended the meeting place of the Revival Ekklesia Mission (REM), an independent, charismatic...

JOS, Nigeria, May 31, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in Niger state, Nigeria have shot to death a missionary and pastor and his 3-year-old son, sources said. Leviticus Makpa, 39, had established a Christian school in Kamberi village, where he served as a...

NEW DELHI, May 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern India contracted COVID-19 while seeking treatment at hospitals where personnel were reluctant to admit him for injuries sustained in a Hindu extremist assault last month, sources said. Pastor Ramnivas...

JOS, Nigeria, May 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (May 23) killed 14 Christians in a village near Jos, Plateau state and eight others in another village, sources said. Herdsmen attacked Kwi village, Riyom County, near Jos, at about 11 p.m.,...

JOS, Nigeria, May 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed two more Christians in Plateau state on Friday night (May 21), the same day a Catholic priest was found slain in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, sources said. Following the killing of a young...

JOS, Nigeria, May 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed the wife and nephew of a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria in an attack on their home on Thursday night (May 20), sources said. Jeffrey Moses, 26, said he and his wife, 21-year-old Ladi Jeffrey,...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A widow and her children who fled their home in eastern Uganda after her husband was killed in 2015 returned this year, only to narrowly escape an attack this month that burned down her reconstructed home, sources...

JOS, Nigeria, May 14, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have demanded 30 million naira (US$73,600) for the release of a Pentecostal church pastor they kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria on Monday night (May 10), according to a local report. Pastor...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the May 3 killing of a Christian pastor hours after he engaged in a public debate about Christianity and Islam, sources said. Pastor Thomas Chikooma, a resident of...

JOS, Nigeria, May 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria kidnapped a pastor’s wife from her home and two nurses from a hospital, while other Islamic extremists may have joined herdsmen in abducting more than 70 people from one village,...

JOS, Nigeria, May 6, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 12 Christians in Nasarawa state and three others in Plateau state the last part of April, sources said. In north-central Nigeria’s Nasarawa state, herdsmen killed 12 Christian farmers in...

NEW DELHI, May 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in India who initially took a pastor and his family into custody to protect them from an attack by a 300-member Hindu extremist mob were pressured into jailing them under a baseless charge of forcible conversion,...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda upset with a pastor’s plans to build a church on land they sought to buy are suspected in his death by poisoning, sources said. Pastor Yolonim Oduchu was poisoned on April 5 in Raraka village,...

JOS, Nigeria, April 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – One Christian student remains captive after three others escaped abduction on Thursday (April 29) by Muslim Fulani herdsmen from a Christian missions school in Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. School and...

LAHORE, Pakistan, April 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan tortured a Christian man into confessing to a false allegation of blaspheming Islam and illegally kept him in custody for more than two months, his attorney said. Salamat Mansha Masih’s...

JOS, Nigeria, April 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday night (April 26) killed 10 Christians who had taken refuge in a camp for the displaced in north-central Nigeria, bringing to 33 the number of Christians slain in Benue state the past...

HYDERABAD, India, April 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – In a ploy to revoke registration of Christian organizations and shrink their influence, Hindu extremists in Nepal have forged a document as if from Christian groups portraying them as seeking ethnic divisions to...

JOS, Nigeria, April 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a Baptist worship service in north-central Nigeria on Sunday (April 25), killing one Christian, wounding another and abducting five others, sources said. “The Fulani herdsmen came to...