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Sudan: Possible Apostasy Charges Against Church Leader

Sudan: Possible Apostasy Charges Against Church Leader

HYDERABAD, India, October 28, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Police officers rushed into a praise service at a house in Tamil Nadu state and began hitting worshippers in another violent month for Christians, sources said. A female police inspector identified only as...

Israel: Excessive force used against Coptic monks

JUBA, South Sudan, October 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – After torturing them and threatening to charge them with serious crimes, authorities in Sudan have released 13 Christians arrested in the Darfur Region, sources said. Personnel from Sudan’s National...

Algeria. Another Church Closed by the Authorities

Algeria. Another Church Closed by the Authorities

NEW DELHI, October 22, 2018 (Morning Star News) – When Pastor Mathai Varghese was beaten and abducted by Hindu extremists in Rajasthan state, India, police gave chase and arrested the kidnappers – as well as the pastor. His car ruined and his body bloodied, he spent a...

Update: Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria

Update: Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, October 19, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Algeria sealed shut a church site on Tuesday (Oct. 16) even after Christian leaders complied with orders to meet building codes, sources said. In Azaghar village near Akbou, about 185...

Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria

Another Church Building Sealed Shut in Algeria

TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, October 18, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Algeria sealed shut a church site on Tuesday (Oct. 16) even after Christian leaders complied with orders to meet building codes, sources said. In Azaghar village near Akbou, about 185...

Turkey: arrest of expatriate church worker

Turkey: arrest of expatriate church worker

JUBA, South Sudan, October 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A young Catholic woman has discovered personally that many Public Order Police in Muslim-majority Sudan believe they have a mandate to sexually harass those they deem inappropriately dressed. Nyankiir Kual...

Algeria: Four Christians face proselytism charges

Algeria: Four Christians face proselytism charges

NAIROBI, Kenya, October 15, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists suspected to be Al Shabaab militants on Wednesday at 1 a.m. (Oct. 10) killed two Christians in northern Kenya, sources said. In Mandera East, in Mandera County on Kenya’s border with Somalia,...

Violence against Christians Ratchets Up in Southern India

Violence against Christians Ratchets Up in Southern India

HYDERABAD, India, October 9, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Christians in southern India are increasingly living in fear as the level of violence against them continues to rise, sources said. The southern states of Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and...

Turkey: Upcoming hearing for Andrew Brunson

Turkey: Upcoming hearing for Andrew Brunson

LAHORE, Pakistan, October 8, 2018 (Morning Star News) – More than six months after doctors and hospital staff members killed a Christian at a government hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, none of the suspects has been arrested, the victim’s brother said. Anil Saleem,...

Sudan Releases Bible Shipments Detained in Port Years Ago

Sudan Releases Bible Shipments Detained in Port Years Ago

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – In a surprise move, Sudan has released shipments of Bibles long held in port, including one detained nearly six years ago, according to the head of the Bible Society in Sudan. The Rev. Ismail Abdurahman Kenani, Khartoum-based...

Authorities Seal Shut Three Church Buildings in Indonesia

Authorities Seal Shut Three Church Buildings in Indonesia

October 4, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Police in Jambi, on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, last week escorted members of a Methodist church congregation out of their building and sealed the door shut. While church members wept, the Jambi Civil Service Police pasted a...

Iran: Two Christian converts receive prison sentences

Iran: Two Christian converts receive prison sentences

JERUSALEM, October 3, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have closed private schools administered by the Syriac Orthodox Church, which Assyrian Christians say threatens the survival of the Christian community in the region. The...