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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Following the conversion of a Muslim imam to Christianity, mosque leaders in eastern Uganda on Dec. 27 incited a group of Muslims to beat a pastor and his wife and demolish parts of their church building, sources...

LAHORE, Pakistan, January 11, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in Lahore, Pakistan on Jan. 4 recovered the bodies of two Christian sisters whose Muslim supervisors pressured them to convert to Islam before killing them, sources said. Mushtaq Masih said that police...

JUBA, South Sudan, January 7, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Officials in Sudan have shown signs of increasing religious freedom, but Christians say roadblocks remain to constructing churches and regaining confiscated properties since the new transitional government took...

LAHORE, Pakistan, January 5, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A 25-year-old Christian is in police custody in Lahore, Pakistan after he shared another person’s post critical of Islam on his Facebook page, sources said. Hundreds of Muslims converged on Raja Warris’...

NEW DELHI, January 4, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Korean Christian and three nationals of India are in jail in Uttar Pradesh state, accused of fraudulent conversion attempts while distributing food and other aid to people in need due to COVID-19 lockdown, sources...

JOS, Nigeria, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist terrorists who kidnapped 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria on Christmas Day have executed five of them, according to a video released by the Islamic State’s AMAQ News agency. The 49-second video,...

NAIROBI, Kenya, December 31, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists raped a church pastor on Dec. 21 in eastern Uganda, sources said. The female pastor, whose identity is withheld for her protection, was returning to her home in Kapyani, Kibuku District, from...

JOS, Nigeria, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist militants killed seven Christians in Christmas Eve attacks northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, according to area residents, while two people were reportedly killed in neighboring Adamawa state....

LAHORE, Pakistan, December 28, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslims who employed two young Christian women as live-in house cleaners in Lahore, Pakistan have forcibly converted them to Islam and are not permitting Christian relatives to see them, sources said. Nasreen...

NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in Sudan who have burned down a church’s worship structure five times threatened to kill congregation members if they put up another tent and continue worshipping, sources said. Police this...

LAHORE, Pakistan, December 18, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Christian who spent nearly 11 years in solitary confinement over a false allegation of desecrating the Koran was set to walk free after a high court this week overturned his conviction, sources said. The...

NAIROBI, Kenya, December 17, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A 38-year-old mother of three in eastern Uganda had secretly put her faith in Christ for three months before her Muslim husband found two Bibles in her suitcase. On that day, Nov. 21, in Bugiri District’s Matovu...