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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...

Christians Falsely Charged in Central India, Sources Say

Christians Falsely Charged in Central India, Sources Say

NEW DELHI, March 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Two pastors and a friend falsely accused of fraudulent conversion in central India were released on bail last week after spending a month in jail, sources said. Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh state had pressured...

Algeria: Pastor faces prison term

Algeria: Pastor faces prison term

NEW DELHI, March 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Armed Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh, India disrupted worship services at two churches on Feb. 7, beat congregation members and pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion,...

Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi released on bail

Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi released on bail

HYDERABAD, India, March 1, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Local officials and other tribal animists in a village in eastern India locked council doors, tied up pastor Lakshman Oraon and beat him for more than an hour, but he kept praising God, he said. “I did not shout or...

Islamist Terrorists in Nigeria Threaten to Execute Pastor

Islamist Terrorists in Nigeria Threaten to Execute Pastor

JOS, Nigeria, February 25, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A pastor abducted from northeastern Nigeria by Islamic extremist militants reportedly says in a video that they will kill him on Wednesday (March 3) if their ransom demands are not met. In the video sent to...

Herdsmen Kill Church Elder, Abduct Three  Other Christians

Herdsmen Kill Church Elder, Abduct Three Other Christians

JOS, Nigeria, February 23, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a church elder and abducted three other Christians in northwest Nigeria on Feb. 16, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot dead Mati Sani, a 65-year-old elder with the Evangelical Church...

Another Church Building Set Ablaze in Sudan

Another Church Building Set Ablaze in Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan, February 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The ninth church building in two years to be set ablaze in Sudan was torched last month, sources said. Suspected Muslim extremists set fire to the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) building in the rural Tambul...

Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi imprisoned after exposing harassment

Iran: Ebrahim Firouzi imprisoned after exposing harassment

February 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Renowned French film-maker, journalist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, hardly a right-wing “Islamophobe,” is among those who have made reports that indicate funding from Islamist organizations abroad is behind the...

Turkey: Upcoming hearing for pastor facing deportation

Turkey: Upcoming hearing for pastor facing deportation

HYDERABAD, India, February 9, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in southern India have filed false charges against a church pastor after tribal animists assaulted him for his faith so severely that he was hospitalized for two days, sources said. The pastor and three...