

Somaliland: Christians on trial
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,...

Students Kidnapped in Attack on Christian School in Plateau State, Nigeria
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...

Police in Pakistan Torture Christian into False Confession of Blasphemy
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...

Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill 33 Christians in One Week in Benue State, Nigeria
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...

Campaign Launched to Discredit Christian Groups in Nepal
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...

Iran: Christian convert sentenced to 10-months prison, other converts temporarily released
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...

Islamists in Pakistan Forcibly ‘Convert’ Catholic, Threaten Family
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Members of an Islamic extremist political party in Pakistan have forcibly converted a mentally challenged Catholic and are pressuring his family to renounce their faith, a relative said. Adnan Bashir, 40, wandered...

Saudi Arabia: Pray for court hearing
April 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Egyptian Interior Ministry’s claim – a day after Islamic terrorists released a video showing the execution of a 62-year-old Christian grandfather – that police had killed three of the suspects in the killing seems suspicious at...

Somaliland: Trial date set for detainees
NEW DELHI, April 20, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sanjay Bhandari had taken his wife for a medical check-up earlier this month when they decided to visit her sister in the same area in Karnataka state, southwest India – only to be attacked as they were drinking...

Christians Confined to Home by Police, Tribal Threats in India
HYDERABAD, India, April 15, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian family in eastern India has been confined to their home for months amid police threats to jail them for “breach of peace” after tribal mob assaults for leaving their native religion, sources said. The...

Mother of Seven Wounded, Loses Family for Becoming Christian
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 13, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A mother of seven children in eastern Uganda suffered serious wounds and is cut off from her family after her husband and other Muslim relatives attacked her on Easter Sunday for putting her faith in Christ, sources...

Somaliland: Prayer for detained Christians
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a...

Released from Prison, Algerian Christian Faces Persecution in Tunisia
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, April 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – After Slimane Bouhafs was released from prison in 2018, having served nearly two years for violating Algeria’s blasphemy laws, further persecution drove him to Tunisia. Threats on his life continue there, and he...

North Cyprus: Update on Ryan Keating’s situation
NEW DELHI, April 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – When followers of tribal deities in central India threatened to kill 10 Christian families if they refused to participate in a “re-conversion” ceremony back to their ancestral religion last month, all but 10 Christians...

German Pastor Hopeful in Fight to Remain in Turkey
March 30, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A German pastor fighting expulsion from Turkey is hopeful that he may be the exception to a wave of foreign Christian leaders expelled from the country as “threats to national security.” Though Turkey’s National Intelligence...

Turkey: Pastor awaits hearing verdict
JOS, Nigeria, March 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria suspect Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind the kidnapping of eight Christians from a bus in the southern part of the state on Friday (March 26). The members of the Redeemed...

Christian’s Five-Year Prison Sentence for Facebook Post Upheld in Algeria
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, March 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Oran, Algeria on Monday (March 22) upheld a five-year prison sentence for a Christian convicted of reposting a cartoon of Islam’s prophet on his Facebook account three years ago, sources said. Farid...

Life Sentence for Christian in Pakistan Changed to Death Penalty
NEW DELHI, March 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A mob armed with axes and thick wooden batons in central India disrupted a home worship service and beat and threatened Christians for leaving their ancestral tribal religion this month, sources said. Eight Christians...

Legacy of a Hard-Working Fighter for Religious Freedom
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, March 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Until her death last month at the age of 63, Bolivian attorney Ruth Montaño had done perhaps more than any living person to advance the rights of religious minorities in her Andean homeland. A specialist in...

Iran: Prison terms expected to start soon
HYDERABAD, India, March 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Homeless since relatives attacked her for failing to respect their tribal rituals last month, a Christian mother of three young children in eastern India sought help from police. The next morning, Feb. 10, an...