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Somaliland: Christians on trial

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,...

Campaign Launched to Discredit Christian Groups in Nepal

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...

Saudi Arabia: Pray for court hearing

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

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...

Somaliland: Prayer for detained Christians

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...

North Cyprus: Update on Ryan Keating’s situation

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

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

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...

Legacy of a Hard-Working Fighter for Religious Freedom

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

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...