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Algeria: Christian Convicted of  Blasphemy

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

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

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

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

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...

Police Join Attack on Christians, File False Charges

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...