

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...

Christian Leader in Sudan Detained, Blindfolded and Beaten, Sources Say
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...

Muslim Fulani Kill 11 Christians, Wound Two, in North-Central Nigeria, Sources Say
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...

Father Recovers Custody of Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted/Married Daughter
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....

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...

Two Christians Studying Bible in Park Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan
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...

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
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...

Police Hamper Prosecution of Accused Killers of Christian, Sources Say
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...

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...