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...
Sudan Detains, Interrogates Elder in Campaign to Take Over Church
JUBA, South Sudan, September 26, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A month after seven church leaders were arrested, interrogated and released on bail, police in Sudan detained and questioned another church leader in Omdurman on Friday (Sept. 22), sources said. Elder Mahjoub...
Fulani Fugitive from Islam in Nigeria Endures Persecution as a ‘Lifestyle’
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 22, 2017(Morning Star News) – Before Boko Haram began growing into a prominent terrorist force in northeast Nigeria in 2009, its members were trying to kill a highly effective evangelist to ethnic Fulani Muslims. One Boko Haram member...
Christians in Nepal Sentenced to Prison for Praying for Ill Woman Are Released
September 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Four Christians in Nepal sentenced to five years in prison on false charges of “witchcraft” and “violence” were released today after a high court annulled their convictions, church leaders said. Lali Pun, Bimkali Budha, Suk Lal...
Christian Father of Two in Pakistan Sentenced to Death for ‘Blaspheming’ Prophet of Islam
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 18, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of two in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam’s prophet in a phone text even though he is illiterate, sources said. Nadeem James, 27, was charged in July 2016 in...
China Tightens Control on Churches, Enforces Law Against Teaching Children
September 15, 2017 (Morning Star News) – China has tightened its “choke-hold” on churches across the country in recent weeks, according to advocacy group China Aid. Recent bans on unregistered church worship and on teaching Christianity to children, “as if intending...
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Massacre 20 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
ANCHA, Nigeria, September 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state massacred 20 Christians, including children, as they slept in the hours after midnight on Friday (Sept. 8) in an apparent reprisal attack that mystified...
Christian High School Student Killed in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 8, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The father of a 17-year-old Christian who was killed in a school in Pakistan by at least one Muslim classmate said the attack was religiously motivated, a charge that police dispute. Ilyasab Masih told Morning...
Al Shabaab Militants in Kenya Kill Four Christians
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 7, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Somali militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab killed four Christians in coastal Kenya on Wednesday (Sept. 6), a local source said. Shaken residents of Bobo village in Lamu County left their homes and...
Catholic Priest in Nigeria Kidnapped, Killed
JOS, Nigeria, September 5, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Catholic priest who was kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria on Friday (Sept. 1), was found dead on Saturday, sources said. Gunmen dragged the Rev. Cyriacus Onunkwo, of the diocese of Orlu, Imo state, from his car...
Pastor in India Perseveres amid Persecution by Hindu Extremists
HYDERABAD, India, August 31, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!” “I remained...