Mother in Uganda Beaten, Driven from Home for Embracing Christ
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 30, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said. Sophia Nakisaala, 35, turned to Christ on Aug. 7 after her daughter was healed when a...
Pastors Arrested in Sudan as Government Moves to Take Over Church
on Jan. 2 this year of charges ranging from spying to inciting hatred against the government. Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments had written a letter dated Aug. 14 ordering them to hand over church leadership to the committee appointed by the...
Christian Mother Who Died in Detention in Eritrea Showed Signs of Torture, Mourners Note
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 25, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A relative at the burial of a Christian mother of three who died in detention in Eritrea told Morning Star News her body showed signs of torture that could have contributed to her death. Eritrean authorities...
Egypt Closes One Church, Blocks Worship at Another
CAIRO, August 24, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Authorities have closed a church that serves three villages in Upper Egypt on the pretext that area Muslims object to it – one of at least 15 Christian worship sites shuttered in the bishopric of Minya, sources said. Coptic...
Another Teenage Boy in Pakistan Beaten, Accused of Blasphemy
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 22, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob in rural Punjab Province, Pakistan stormed a police station to continue beating a 16-year-old boy accused of blaspheming the Koran, sources said. Asif Masih, illiterate and mildly mentally challenged...
Police in Sudan Evict Two Pastors from Their Homes
JUBA, Sudan, August 21, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In further efforts to help a Muslim businessman take over church property, police in Omdurman, Sudan evicted two church leaders and their families from their houses, sources said. Police on Tuesday (Aug. 15) raided...
Judge in Pakistan Urges Parliament to Prosecute Blasphemy Cases under Terrorism Laws
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 18, 2017 (Morning Star News) – In an expanded order to remove “blasphemous” content from social media in Pakistan, a high court judge included a recommendation that Parliament include terrorism charges against those accused of blasphemy. Last...
Pastors in India Put Trust in God amid Persecution
HYDERABAD, India, August 16, 2017 (Morning Star News) – As two Hindu extremists gripped his hands while others beat him last week in northern India, Pastor Amar Stephen was asking God to forgive them. “Some attackers were holding both my hands so I couldn’t move,...
Herdsmen in Plateau State, Nigeria Quietly Seizing Christians’ Property, Pastors Say
JOS, Nigeria, August 14, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian Berom farmers in Plateau state, Nigeria amount to “economic terrorism,” Christian leaders told Morning Star News. While Plateau state officials say “relative...
Christian Rights Activists in Vietnam Charged with Serious ‘Crimes’
August 11, 2017 (Morning Star News) – After 19 long months of investigative detention following his Dec. 16, 2015 arrest, renowned human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai was finally charged with a crime on July 30. Vietnamese authorities charged Dai, 35-year-old legal...
Kidnapped Pastor in Nigeria Released from Five Days of Captivity
JOS, Nigeria, August 10, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Suspecting corrupt police and accusing the Nigerian government of failing to contain a rash of kidnappings, Christian leaders announced that a pastor abducted last week was freed on Wednesday (Aug. 9). The Rev. Jen...
Fulani Herdsmen Kidnap Pastor in Plateau State, Central Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, August 8, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Aug. 4) kidnapped a pastor as he and his driver were traveling in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the wounded driver told Morning Star News. The Rev. Jen Tivkaa Moses and his driver,...
Christians Killed, Injured in Church Shooting in Southern Nigeria
JOS, NIGERIA, August 6, 2017 (Morning Star News) – At least 11 people were killed in an attack on a Catholic church service in southern Nigeria today that apparently was rooted in a conflict with a relative of one of the parishioners, authorities said. At least 18...
Police Disingenuous in Hindu Extremist Assault on Pastors in Tamil Nadu, India, Sources Say
HYDERABAD, India, August 1, 2017(Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus used steel rods and a butcher’s knife to attack a father-son pastoral team in Tamil Nadu state, India, injuring the brain tissue of the elder clergyman, sources said. In Thyagaraja Nagar, in the...
Calling Worship ‘Unlawful Assembly,’ Police in Uttar Pradesh India, Arrest Six Christians
JERUSALEM, July 31, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Two Christian prisoners in Iran recently went on hunger strikes to protest increasingly harsh treatment of those arrested for house-church activities. Since June 2016, courts in Iran have given 11 Christians prison...
Christian Student Killed in Spate of Boko Haram Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria, July 20, 2017 (Morning Star News) Among several Boko Haram bombings that have put northeastern Nigeria on edge this year was a suicide attack on Christian student organization quarters that killed a Christian student, sources said. Ambore Gideon Todi, a...
Pastor in Punjab State, India Shot Dead
HYDERABAD, India, July 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India’s Punjab state was shot dead in front of his church premises two months after Hindu extremists took offense at a gospel event celebrating his church’s 25thanniversary, sources said....
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LAHORE, Pakistan, July 17, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A A member of an Islamic extremist group in Pakistan has accused a Christian minor of blasphemy after the boy had an argument with a Muslim, sources said. Hina Shafaqat, mother of 17-year-old Shahzad Masih,...
Harsh Punishments Meted Out to Christians in Iran as Tehran Sends Chilling Signal
JERUSALEM, July 13, 2017 (Morning Star News) – The latest in a string of harsh sentences against church leaders in Iran has been handed down to four Christian converts for promoting Christianity, according to human rights activists. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, along...
Christians in Coastal Kenya Fearful after Slaughter of 13 Non-Muslims
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militia over the weekend killed 13 non-Muslims, mostly Christians, in coastal Kenya, sources said. Village Muslims in the Pandanguo settlement of Lamu County helped Islamic extremists from the...