News and Stories
Somaliland: Verdict scheduled for detained believers

Somaliland: Verdict scheduled for detained believers

JOS, Nigeria, May 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed the wife and nephew of a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria in an attack on their home on Thursday night (May 20), sources said. Jeffrey Moses, 26, said he and his wife, 21-year-old Ladi Jeffrey,...

Iran: Christian converts charged under amended legislation

Iran: Christian converts charged under amended legislation

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A widow and her children who fled their home in eastern Uganda after her husband was killed in 2015 returned this year, only to narrowly escape an attack this month that burned down her reconstructed home, sources...

Saudi Arabia: Wife confined by family

Saudi Arabia: Wife confined by family

JOS, Nigeria, May 14, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have demanded 30 million naira (US$73,600) for the release of a Pentecostal church pastor they kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria on Monday night (May 10), according to a local report. Pastor...

Somaliland: Prayer needed for Tuesday hearing

Somaliland: Prayer needed for Tuesday hearing

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the May 3 killing of a Christian pastor hours after he engaged in a public debate about Christianity and Islam, sources said. Pastor Thomas Chikooma, a resident of...

Kidnappings Terrorize Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Kidnappings Terrorize Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria, May 10, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria kidnapped a pastor’s wife from her home and two nurses from a hospital, while other Islamic extremists may have joined herdsmen in abducting more than 70 people from one village,...

Iran: Convert awaiting summons to serve sentence

Iran: Convert awaiting summons to serve sentence

NEW DELHI, May 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in India who initially took a pastor and his family into custody to protect them from an attack by a 300-member Hindu extremist mob were pressured into jailing them under a baseless charge of forcible conversion,...

Somaliland: Christians on trial

Somaliland: Christians on trial

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 3, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda upset with a pastor’s plans to build a church on land they sought to buy are suspected in his death by poisoning, sources said. Pastor Yolonim Oduchu was poisoned on April 5 in Raraka village,...

Campaign Launched to Discredit Christian Groups in Nepal

Campaign Launched to Discredit Christian Groups in Nepal

HYDERABAD, India, April 28, 2021 (Morning Star News) – In a ploy to revoke registration of Christian organizations and shrink their influence, Hindu extremists in Nepal have forged a document as if from Christian groups portraying them as seeking ethnic divisions to...

Saudi Arabia: Pray for court hearing

Saudi Arabia: Pray for court hearing

April 26, 2021 (Morning Star News) – The Egyptian Interior Ministry’s claim – a day after Islamic terrorists released a video showing the execution of a 62-year-old Christian grandfather – that police had killed three of the suspects in the killing seems suspicious at...

Somaliland: Trial date set for detainees

Somaliland: Trial date set for detainees

NEW DELHI, April 20, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Pastor Sanjay Bhandari had taken his wife for a medical check-up earlier this month when they decided to visit her sister in the same area in Karnataka state, southwest India – only to be attacked as they were drinking...

Somaliland: Prayer for detained Christians

Somaliland: Prayer for detained Christians

LAHORE, Pakistan, April 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a...