

Converts, Pastors Threatened with Death; Gospel Meetings Banned in Town in Uganda
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 5, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Police have banned evangelistic events in a town in western Uganda following open-air preaching in which many Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said. Churches in Bwera, on Uganda’s western border with the...

Muslim Clerics Threaten Sudanese Christian in Egypt
JUBA, South Sudan, June 4, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Days after Muslim leaders in Egypt came to his apartment to warn him to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian in Cairo received a death threat by phone last week, he said. Having fled Sudan after authorities...

Local Muslims Suspected in Killing of Christians after Sunday Worship in Jos, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, May 29, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Gunmen suspected to be local Fulani Muslims killed several Christians as they made their way home from church services in Jos, Nigeria on Sunday (May 26) following the murder of another area Christian last week, sources...

Release of Imprisoned Christian Offers Hope for Justice for Wrongfully Convicted in India
NEW DELHI, May 28, 2019 (Morning Star News) – When police took Gornath Chalanseth from his home in eastern India early on the morning of Dec. 13, 2008, he assumed they only wanted to question him over minor political activity in his capacity as a member of the local...

Muslim Employer in Pakistan Kills Christian Farmhand for Working Elsewhere, Relatives Say
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 28, 2019 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim landlord outside Faisalabad, Pakistan tortured a worker to death for daring, as a “lowly Christian,” to work for another employer, relatives said. Javed Masih, a Catholic in Nulka Kohala village, a suburb...

Armed Gunmen Kidnap 19 Christians, Kill One in Kaduna State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, May 27, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen stormed a church choir practice and kidnapped 17 Christians in north-central Nigeria the night of May 18, and the same night gunmen killed a Christian and kidnapped two others at a Baptist...

Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria
of an evangelical church in Ait-Jimaa village, 45 kilometers (27 miles) from Tizi-Ouzou. The EPA has 45 affiliated churches throughout the country with nearly 50,000 Christians. Since November 2017, “building-safety committees” have visited most EPA-affiliated...

Iran: sentences of two converts upheld
NEW DELHI, May 22, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Village leaders in eastern India prohibited five Christian families from working on their farms or walking on the main road before district authorities this month revoked the order, sources said. Leaders of Banhardi...

Turkey: foreign national church workers given entry bans
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 13, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Yusuf Tulo and his sizeable family were worshipping in their home in eastern Uganda on April 28 when they heard their neighbors shouting, “Fire!” Tulo, 35, had left Islam to put his faith in Christ last October. He...

More than Six Months after Acquittal, Asia Bibi Finally Allowed to Leave Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 8, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Aasiya Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi, has arrived in Canada along with her husband more than six months after being acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from prison in Pakistan, sources said. After...

Fire at Historic Church Building on Easter Stuns, but Does Not Stop, Worshipers in India
NEW DELHI, May 8, 2019 (Morning Star News) – It was a different kind of Easter celebration this year for Pastor Anil Juit of Maranatha Full Gospel Church in eastern India. Opening the door of the historic church building in Arrah, in Bihar state’s Bhojpur District, on...

Three Christians Killed in Ambush Attacks near Jos, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, May 6, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed and killed a 26-year-old Catholic on Thursday (May 2) in north-central Nigeria and two other Christians in the same manner on April 27, sources said. After a herdsmen assault in...

Algeria: Two Upcoming Court Cases
, filed a complaint with gendarmerie on 2017. Under pressure from her family, she divorced him after falsely accusing him of attacking Islam and destroying a box inscribed with a verse from the Koran on it. A judge upheld the acquittal in a Feb. 27 ruling. His in-laws...
After Attack, Pastor in Nepal Filled with Fear — and Faith
NEW DELHI, April 30, 2019 (Morning Star News) – More than a month after men claiming to be Maoists in Nepal assaulted Dhurba Kumar Pariyar, the 40-year-old pastor is still physically and mentally traumatized. “I still have headache and chest pain, though I am under...
Funeral Held for Eight Christians Killed in Easter Procession in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, April 29, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Hundreds of family members and sympathizers on Saturday (April 27) attended a funeral in northeastern Nigeria for eight young Christians, six of them minors, who were killed when an off-duty security officer drove his...

Christians and the Changes in Sudan
at the main demonstration outside the Military headquarters. At that occasion a statement by Rafat Samir Mussad, the chair of the Community Council of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, was read that ends with the call: “My beloved fellow Sudanese and fellow...

Four Christians, including U.S. Woman, Arrested from Hotel in Nepal
NEW DELHI, April 24, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Police in Nepal arrested four Christians from a hotel, including a woman from the United States, early Tuesday morning (April 23) on false charges of conversion by allurement, sources said. Police from Dang Deukhuri...

Church Closed in Egypt after Muslim Mob Frightens Children in Sunday School
CAIRO, Egypt, April 23, 2019 (Morning Star News) – A Coptic church in Upper Egypt is closed after a throng of angry Muslims attacked it this month, beating a priest and another Copt as more than 200 fearful children who had gathered for Bible lessons looked on,...

Unprecedented Suicide Bombing Attacks Shock Christians in Sri Lanka
HYDERABAD, India, April 22, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Sri Lanka have never seen such a large-scale attack on them as the one that hit three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21), killing at least 290 people, they said. “I don’t have...

Easter Sunday – 6 Blasts in Churches & Hotels in Sri Lanka
JOS, Nigeria, April 22, 2019 (Morning Star News) – At midnight on April 14 I received a phone call about an attack in Konshu village, confirming my fear that it was only a matter of time before Muslim Fulani herdsmen atrocities in Nigeria reached my native home area...