Algeria: Christian Convicted of Blasphemy
NEW DELHI, February 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Leela Bai, eight months pregnant, rushed outside a house she was visiting in central India after hearing the commotion of a Hindu extremist mob attacking tribal Christians preparing to celebrate the New Year. The mob...
Iran: Christian converts interrogated and pressured
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Arsonists set five church buildings on fire and threw feces on the charred structures from Jan. 20 to Jan. 24 in a village in western Kenya, sources said. St. Monica Church’s building was burned on Jan. 20 in...
Iran: Prison sentences against Christian converts upheld
JOS, Nigeria, February 2, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Mayhem continued in Nigeria as suspected Fulani herdsmen burned down the venue of a planned Christian conference in Kaduna state last week and earlier killed two clergymen in the country’s Middle Belt, sources said....
Christian in Algeria Imprisoned for Cartoon on Facebook
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, February 1, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian who had received and reposted a cartoon of the prophet of Islam on his Facebook account three years ago was not too concerned when gendarmerie showed up at his door on Jan. 20. By the next day,...
North Cyprus: Expatriate Christian targeted in media
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 29, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan who had dismissed accusations of blasphemy against a Christian nurse who was attacked by hospital personnel registered a case against her today after pressure from an Islamist mob, sources...
Family of Assaulted Pastor Attacked Again by Area Muslims
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers on Sunday (Jan. 24) attacked the wife and children of a pastor in eastern Uganda who is still receiving hospital treatment for a previous assault, sources said. Nearly four weeks after...
Police Join Attack on Christians, File False Charges
NEW DELHI, January 27, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police who did nothing to stop a fierce attack on a church service in Uttar Pradesh, India also beat and threatened the Christians while arresting them under false accusations of fraudulent conversions, sources said. A...
Catholic Girl, 12, Likely to Return to Muslim Abductor, Advocates Fear
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Advocates for a 12-year-old Catholic girl found tortured and chained in the home of a Muslim in Pakistan fear he will regain custody after she testified that she converted and wed him of her own free will,...
Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Kill Pastor in Southwest Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, January 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in southwest Nigeria on Jan. 16 shot and killed a pastor who was also a university professor, sources said. Amos Arijesuyo, pastor at Christ Apostolic Church and professor at the Federal...
Woman Loses Family after Responding to Visions of Christ, She Says
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Mansitula Buliro was preparing for Muslim evening prayers with her husband in eastern Uganda last week when she had a vision of Christ, she said. The 13-weeks pregnant, 45-year-old mother of seven said that on...
Hindu Nationalists Incite Animists to Attack Christians in India
JOS, Nigeria, January 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A professor at a Christian university has reportedly been released after being kidnapped in Nigeria, which leads the world in abductions of Christians, sources said. John Fatokun, professor of computational...
Pastor, Wife in Uganda Attacked after Imam Becomes Christian
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Following the conversion of a Muslim imam to Christianity, mosque leaders in eastern Uganda on Dec. 27 incited a group of Muslims to beat a pastor and his wife and demolish parts of their church building, sources...
Muslim Supervisors Kill Two Christian Women in Pakistan, Sources Say
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 11, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan on Jan. 4 recovered the bodies of two Christian sisters whose Muslim supervisors pressured them to convert to Islam before killing them, sources said. Mushtaq Masih said that police...
Religious Rights Still Blocked in Sudan, Christian Leaders Say
JUBA, South Sudan, January 7, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Officials in Sudan have shown signs of increasing religious freedom, but Christians say roadblocks remain to constructing churches and regaining confiscated properties since the new transitional government took...
Christian Lay Leader Arrested on Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 25-year-old Christian is in police custody in Lahore, Pakistan after he shared another person’s post critical of Islam on his Facebook page, sources said. Hundreds of Muslims converged on Raja Warris’...
First Christian Arrested under New ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law in Uttar Pradesh, India
NEW DELHI, January 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Korean Christian and three nationals of India are in jail in Uttar Pradesh state, accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food and other aid to people in need due to COVID-19 lockdown, sources...
ISWAP Terrorists Execute Five Christians in Nigeria, Video Shows
JOS, Nigeria, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist terrorists who kidnapped 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria on Christmas Day have executed five of them, according to a video released by the Islamic State’s AMAQ News agency. The 49-second video,...
Muslim Extremists Rape Pastor in Eastern Uganda, Sources Say
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists raped a church pastor on Dec. 21 in eastern Uganda, sources said. The female pastor, whose identity is withheld for her protection, was returning to her home in Kapyani, Kibuku District, from...
Seven Christians Killed near Chibok, Nigeria in Christmas Eve Attacks
JOS, Nigeria, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants killed seven Christians in Christmas Eve attacks northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, according to area residents, while two people were reportedly killed in neighboring Adamawa state....
Muslim Employers Forcibly Convert Two Christian Maids in Pakistan, Relative Says
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslims who employed two young Christian women as live-in house cleaners in Lahore, Pakistan have forcibly converted them to Islam and are not permitting Christian relatives to see them, sources said. Nasreen...