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...

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, March 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A court in Algeria has convicted and sentenced in absentia a pastor and another Christian to two years in prison and a heavy fine, accusing them of “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at...

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,...

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...

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple visiting a young mother at her home in eastern Uganda last month decided to pray for her before leaving – triggering an immediate response from her Muslim husband. “In the middle of the...

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...

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...

JUBA, South Sudan, February 22, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian leader in Sudan was detained and beaten on Friday (Feb. 19) for speaking out against the burning of a church building, sources said. Masked men believed to be national security personnel seized...

JOS, Nigeria, February 19, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot four Christians to death on Sunday (Feb. 14) in north-central Nigeria, following the killing of seven other Christians earlier in the month. Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed the four...

LAHORE, Pakistan, February 18, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Asif Masih beamed with joy to have his 12-year-old daughter back home on Tuesday (Feb. 16) in Faisalabad, Pakistan following her alleged kidnapping and forcible conversion and marriage to a 45-year-old Muslim....

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...

LAHORE, Pakistan, February 16, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan have charged two Christians with blasphemy after Muslims objected to their Bible study in a park, the attorney for one of the accused said. Haroon Ayub Masih, 26, and friend Salamat...

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...

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...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Suspects in the killing of a young Christian man in Pakistan a year ago have been freed on bail due to police connivance and are issuing death threats to pressure relatives to drop the case, sources said. Muslim land-owners upset...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...