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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...

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...