

Police Slow to Respond to Vicious Attack on Pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India
NEW DELHI, April 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In a village in northern India, pastor Rakesh Kumar Masih passed out from the pain of Hindu extremists beating his genitals, and they left him for dead. The sun was shining bright when the Hindu nationalists stormed into...

Two Pastors in Burma Freed from Prison
CAIRO, Egypt, April 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Security police in Morocco detained a Christian for 24 hours after finding Christian literature in his backpack, according to published reports. Spanish news agency EFE reported that authorities stopped the...

Iran: imprisoned Christian granted conditional release
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Christians in Quetta, Pakistan are living in fear after the second attack this month by suspected Islamist militants killed two Christians in front of a home. Three other people were injured, including two girls,...

Algeria: Christian released after serving prison sentence
HYDERABAD, India, April 9, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A hard-line Hindu has confessed to attempting to murder a pastor in southern India as the Christian leader was praying at night, according to police. Pastor Madira Koti Reddy, who leads a house church in...

Four Christians Killed, Girl Wounded in Easter Monday Attack in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 3, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Four Christians, including a woman, were killed and a young girl wounded in a terrorist attack in Pakistan on Monday(April 2), sources said. Rickshaw driver Pervaiz Masih was transporting his brothers-in-law Imran...

Staff Members at Emergency Maternity Ward in Pakistan Kill Christian, Relatives Say
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 28, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Medical staff and security guards at a major government hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday (March 26) killed a Christian father of four and injured five members of his family, including the pregnant sister he...

Hindu Extremists Turn Tribal, Animist Villagers against Christians in India
NEW DELHI, March 27, 2018 (Morning Star News) – About 20 villagers questioning Christians gathered for worship in a home in Odisha state, India were animists who worshipped objects in nature and other gods, but Hindu nationalists had led them there. “Why have you left...

Turkey: Date set for Andrew Brunson court hearing
JOS, Nigeria, March 26, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria retained the only Christian among more than 100 kidnapped girls who were freed last week, prompting the head of her church denomination to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to...

Court in Pakistan Acquits 20 Muslims Suspected in Brick-Kiln Killing of Christian Couple
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 25, 2018 (Morning Star News) – An anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday (March 24) acquitted 20 Muslims suspected of involvement in the killing and burning in a brick kiln of a Christian couple in 2014, sources said. A frenzied...

Iraq: Christians concerned after spate of deadly violence
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 23, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A week after a young Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, relatives attacked him with hot cooking oil, sources said. Gobera Bashir, 27, is still in pain with burns on 40 percent of his body after the...

Ferocity of Hindu Extremist Attacks Stuns Christians in Tamil Nadu, India
HYDERABAD, India, March 21, 2018(Morning Star News) – Before Hindu extremists attacking a church in southern India this month repeatedly kicked a pastor’s wife in the face, rendering her unconscious, they tried to snatch her Bible from her. Persia Jacob, 38, clasped...

Christians Wounded in Muslim Attack on Church Service in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 20, 2018 (Morning Star News) – At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the church pastor told Morning Star News....

Christian Widow, Bereaved Father Show Reality behind Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
MIANGO, Nigeria, March 19, 2018(Morning Star News) – Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before. “These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this...

Christian Woman in Hiding after Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Husband in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, March 17, 2018 (Morning Star News) – A young Christian mother of three has been in hiding for more than four months since Muslim Fulani herdsmen threatened her after killing her husband, she said. Soon after the herdsmen killed her husband in an attack...

Pastor’s Family Assaulted in Southern India
HYDERABAD, India, March 14, 2018 (Morning Star News) – On a recent Monday at noon in southern India, a pastor’s family in Telangana state noticed motorcycles parked outside their church gate and a gang of young men loudly reading the church banner. The banner of the...

Sentencing of Pastor Adds to Uptick in Persecution in Algeria
March 12, 2018 (Morning Star News) – In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a suspended prison sentence under a law that prohibits causing Muslims to doubt their religion, sources...

Hindu Extremists in Eastern India Attack Christians Coming Off Bus
NEW DELHI, March 7, 2018 ((Morning Star News) – Christians on their way to a recent Christian camp in eastern India shared the purpose of their trip with fellow bus passengers, not realizing one of them was a Hindu extremist. He began to argue about conversion with...

As More Christians Are Killed in Somalia, Number of Orphans Grows
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 6, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist, Al Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care center for...

Iran: Christians recently imprisoned in Tehran and Tabriz
NEW DELHI, March 5, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists upset that Christians tried to bury one of their dead in a village in eastern India seriously injured a 13-year-old girl and others who tried to protect a Christian woman the villagers threatened to burn...

Pastor, Other Christians Slain in Herdsmen Revenge Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, March 2, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday (Feb. 27) killed a pastor and 19 other Christians in apparent retaliation for attacks by ethnic Bachama militia on Fulani families, sources said. The Rev....