Kidnappings, Threats of Massacre Terrorize Christians in Kano State, Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria, November 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – When the 50-year-old church elder and leader of Kano state’s Samaila village heard gunshots shortly before midnight, he rushed out of his house to try to find security agents. It was a natural reaction for...
Somali Muslims Break In, Beat Children of Christian Widow in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 28, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya attacked a Christian widow’s children, ages 13, 17 and 21, leaving two of them seriously injured and still in pain 11 days after the assault, sources said....
Christians in Egypt Lose More Worship Sites
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Nov. 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Fear of Islamist attacks was again cited as the cause of stopping worship in Egypt this month, even though parishioners said local Muslims supported the opening of the shuttered church outside Cairo, sources...
Christians in India Praise God in Spite of Police Brutality, Month in Jail
HYDERABAD, India, November 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Six Christians facing false charges, two of them beaten by police, were jailed for a month for praying for a sick woman in eastern India, they said. After tribal Gondi villagers in Simdega District, Jharkhand...
Accuser of Five Church Leaders in Sudan Fails to Appear for Court Hearing – Again
JUBA, South Sudan, November 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The police officer who accused five church leaders of refusing an order to stop worship services in Sudan again failed to show up at a hearing on Tuesday (Nov. 21), casting further doubt on the legitimacy of...
Five Christians Killed, Five Others Missing in Muslim Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, November 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Five Christians were killed and five others are missing after attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue states in the past two weeks. Two members of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN)...
Muslim Posing as Christian Teacher at School in Uganda Attacks Director, Sources Say
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 16, 2017(Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory...
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Ambush, Kill Nine Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
NEW DELHI, November 14, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later...
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after ‘Miraculous’ Conversions
HYDERABAD, India, November 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26,...
Officials, Police in Tamil Nadu State, India Halt Worship in 10 Churches
NEW DELHI, November 1, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in...
Christian Woman, Son and Daughter Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, October 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her two children were killed in north-central Nigeria last week, three days after a kidnapped priest was slain by his abductors in the southwestern part of the country, sources said. Armed...
Two Pastors in Burma Sentenced to Prison
YANGON, Burma, October 29, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma (Myanmar) army last December were sentenced to prison on Friday (Oct. 27) on false charges of unlawful association, defaming the military and spying, sources said. Pastor...
Torture of Pastor in India Ruins Hearing, Livelihood –but Not His Faith
HYDERABAD, India, October 27, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India has lost hearing in one ear after Hindu extremists tortured him, pressured police to falsely charge him and prevented doctors from treating him, sources said. Pastor Abhay Sagar,...
Muslims Target Pastor with Criminal Accusation in Zanzibar, Tanzania
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A judge failed to show up at a hearing for a pastor facing accusations of child abuse in a case in Zanzibar that Muslims have kept alive after charges were twice dismissed, sources said. Shortly after charges were...
Christians Recount Terror of Herdsmen’s Nine-Day Massacre in Plateau State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, October 25, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The church elder in Plateau state, Nigeria saw the Muslim Fulani herdsmen storm into his village at 11 p.m.the night of Oct. 13, shooting in all directions. “Every one of us ran to save his life,” Dauda Samuel...
Five Church Leaders in Sudan Arrested after Refusing to Cancel Worship Service
JUBA, South Sudan, October 23, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In an ongoing bid by the government of Sudan to take over leadership of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), police on Sunday (Oct. 22) arrested five SCOC church leaders after they refused to comply with an...
Port Authorities in Sudan Detain Bible Shipment without Explanation
JUBA, South Sudan, October 20, 2017(Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan have detained a container of Bibles in Port Sudan without explanation for more than two years, a source said. A Bible Society in Sudan representative told Morning Star News the container was...
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Killed outside Cairo, Egypt
HYDERABAD, India, October 16, 2017(Morning Star News) – A Christian teenager in northern India was jailed for 12 days after anti-Hindu comments appeared on a fake Facebook account in his name, sources said. Sandeep Kumar, 18, christened Karan Anthony, was released on...
Muslim Father in Uganda Drives Son from Home for Becoming Christian
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 10, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The young man did not answer after his father asked him if he had ditched Islam to become a Christian. Magale (also called Mabala) Hamidu, 20, of Nanoko village in eastern Uganda, had become a Christian seven...
Authorities in China Detain Pastor, Daughter and 3-Year-Old Grandson
October 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – While a government-hired thug in China threatened to kill a Christian family, officials in a neighboring province arrested a pastor, her daughter and her 3-year-old grandson, sources said. In Xinning, Hubei Province in the central...