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Boko Haram Executes Two Christian Aid Workers in Nigeria

Boko Haram Executes Two Christian Aid Workers in Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria, September 30, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist group Boko Haram released a video last week showing the execution of two Christian aid workers in Nigeria, sources said. Lawrence Duna Dacighir and Godfrey Ali Shikagham, both members of the...

Algeria: Another church building forcibly closed

Algeria: Another church building forcibly closed

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, September 26, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Authorities today sealed shut a church building in Tigzirt, Algeria, two days after shutting another building serving two churches without prior notice, sources said. Acting on orders from the governor of...

Iran: Three converts receive 6-month prison sentences

Iran: Three converts receive 6-month prison sentences

HYDERABAD, India, September 25, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists and police in eastern India this month ordered jailed Christians to stop gathering for worship, with the extremists threatening to bring a venomous snake to bite a pastor’s wife, sources said....

Algeria: Campaign against churches intensifies

Algeria: Campaign against churches intensifies

NEW DELHI, September 11, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Two weeks after losing his wife to an axe-blow in front of his 3-year-old daughter in eastern India, Rohit Oraon believes that the murder was planned, not spontaneous, and that his relatives also meant to kill him...

Killings, Kidnapping Target Christian Leaders in Mexico

Killings, Kidnapping Target Christian Leaders in Mexico

, citing neighbors who heard cries within. He was 55. His death brings to 27 the number of priests killed in Mexico since 2012, according to CCM. The state attorney general’s Investigative Police officers were still looking for a motive and the assailant(s) at this...

Iran: Update regarding 3 September Court Hearing

Iran: Update regarding 3 September Court Hearing

NEW DELHI, August 29, 2019 (Morning Star News) – When Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth went to jail for a murder in India that he did not commit more than 10 and a half years ago, his mother was still alive and his oldest child was 9 years old. “I have not seen my children...

Iran: Upcoming appeal hearing

Iran: Upcoming appeal hearing

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, August 27, 2019 (Morning Star News) – A brigade of gendarmerie showed up at an evangelical worship site in Algeria on Monday (Aug. 26) to execute the latest of several church closure orders from provincial authorities, but Christian leaders...

Algeria: Campaign against the Algerian church continues

Algeria: Campaign against the Algerian church continues

HYDERABAD, India, August 23, 2019 (Morning Star News) – The Hindu nationalists shouting at Christian leaders who were summoned to a police station in southern India asked what gave them the right to lead Christian congregations in a Hindu country. “Who gave you the...

Christian Mother in Somalia Divorced, Beaten

Christian Mother in Somalia Divorced, Beaten

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 16, 2019 (Morning Star News) – The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she reveal who had given it to her. “I told my husband that I found the Bible in...