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Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria

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

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

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...

Algeria: Two Upcoming Court Cases

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...

Christians and the Changes in Sudan

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...

Rural Life in Bulgaria

Rural Life in Bulgaria

JOS, Nigeria, April 18, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 17 Christians who had gathered after a baby dedication at a church in central Nigeria, including the mother of the child, sources said. Safaratu John Kabiru Ali, the mother of the baby,...

Get Ready & Go

Get Ready & Go

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 9, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Sheikh Hassan Podo, a 28-year-old imam in Kerekerene village in eastern Uganda, missed mosque prayers for three consecutive weeks and was seen entering a church building around noon on March 16. He had kept his faith...