Extended Family Expelled from Village in Chiapas, Mexico
October 21, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A Christian family of six and 10 other relatives are facing hunger and illness in Chiapas, Mexico after local officials drove them from their land for non-compliance with a “traditionalist” mix of indigenous pagan and Catholic...
More than 48 Christians Killed in Kaduna, Nigeria Massacres
GODOGODO, Nigeria, October 19, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 40 Christians in an attack in this town in northern Nigeria on Saturday (Oct. 15) and left another eight dead in an assault three weeks earlier, area leaders said....
Persecution of Church in China to Escalate as Zhejiang Experiment Goes National
October 14, 2016 (Morning Star News) – In October 2012, the South China Morning Post ran a series of articles on China’s looming leadership transition. One line might prove prophetic, although not in the way intended: “For clues about how China’s leader-in-waiting Xi...
Pakistan Supreme Court Delays Ruling on Asia Bibi Case as Islamist Pressures Mount
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, October 13, 2016 (Morning Star News) – As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan’s highest profile blasphemy case, the country’s Supreme Court today delayed ruling on an appeal against the death sentence given to...
Authorities in Sudan Arrest More Christians in Takeover of School
the seven other school staff and local church members. Arrested on the school premises, they were held until Sunday (Oct. 9), Pastor Suliman said. They were released after paying a total of 30,000 Sudanese Pounds (US$4,870) in bail, accused of resisting authorities in...
Church in Northern Kenya Fearful after Gruesome Attack on Christians
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 7, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Church members in a northeastern town in Kenya fear for their lives after Islamic extremists targeted Christians in a grenade and gun attack early Thursday morning (Oct. 6) that killed six people, sources said....
Burning of Pastor’s House in Zanzibar, Tanzania Leaves Family of 11 Homeless
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 5, 2016(Morning Star News) – A pastor, his wife and their nine children have been sleeping on the floor of their small church building on the island of Zanzibar since Muslim extremists set their house on fire in August. Pastor Damson Maonesho...
Authorities in Turkey Arrest Killers in Malatya Slayings
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 30, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Turkey last night arrested the five Muslim nationalists convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. A source told...
Arrest of Christian Workers in Sudan Serves Islamist Regime as Warning to Others
JUBA, South Sudan, September 29, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Christian workers imprisoned under charges related to tarnishing Sudan’s image are innocent, but their arrests serve the Sudanese government as a warning to others against criticizing the Islamist regime,...
Muslim Rebels Massacre Christians in Central African Republic
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 28, 2016(Morning Star News) – After a nine-year legal saga, a Turkish criminal court today sentenced five men to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. The Malatya First Heavy Penal Court...
Authorities Arrest Christian Leader in Al Jazirah State, Sudan, in School Takeover
JUBA, South Sudan, September 13, 2016(Morning Star News) – Authorities in southeastern Sudan arrested the headmaster of a Christian school last week and took over its property, sources said. Armed police and officials from the National Intelligence and Security...
Christian Security Guard Killed in Islamic Extremist Terrorist Attack in Pakistan
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 8, 2016 (Morning Star News) – While Muslim villagers continue to persecute Christians in eastern Uganda, Islamists last month killed a Christian in the western part of the country, sources said. The blood-stained body of a convert from Islam,...
Coptic Teenagers Sentenced in Egypt for ‘Defaming Islam’ in Video Flee to Switzerland
ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 3, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Sentenced to prison in Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam in a video, four Coptic teenagers who had taken refuge in Turkey for months on Thursday (Sept. 1) flew to Switzerland to seek asylum. In exclusive...
Charges against Pastors in Sudan Could Lead to Death Penalty
LAFIA, Nigeria, Sept. 2, 2016 (Morning Star News) – A 60-year-old Christian farmer was hacked to death with machetes last week, the latest victim of attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state who have burned church buildings and homes and destroyed crops in...
Persecution of Christians in India Increases Dramatically in First Half of 2016
under the guise of policemen, beat him brutally, shaved half of his head, eyebrows and mustache, and paraded him on a donkey for about half an hour. The pastor was later charged with forcible conversion. Tribal Factor Findings from Bastar District in Chhattisgarh...
3 AZERBAIJANI CHRISTIANS ARRESTED IN IRAN, DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGE
killed 13 people Aug. 1-3. Saleh said Nigerian police evacuated the corpses of Saturday’s attack at about noon on Sundayand took them to Kafanchan General Hospital. The victims were to be buried on Wednesday(Aug 17). The Rev. Dr. Sunday Ibrahim, secretary of the state...
Baptist Pastor Loses Hand to Muslim Fulani Herdsman in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
August 8, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were among four activists convicted under fabricated charges of “subverting state power” in China last week. The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced house-church leader Hu Shigen, 61, on Wednesday...
One Dead, Several Injured in Islamist Attacks on Copts in Egypt
, the Rev. Peter Yein Reith and the Rev. Yat Michael, with crimes calling for the death penalty due to their efforts to defend the church against the illegal sale of its property to the Muslim business interest. They were released following eight months in prison....
Authorities in Sudan Jail Christians Defending School on Property of Embattled Church
, the Rev. Peter Yein Reith and the Rev. Yat Michael, with crimes calling for the death penalty due to their efforts to defend the church against the illegal sale of its property to the Muslim business interest. They were released following eight months in prison....
Deep Love, Indescribable Pain for Family of Slain Evangelist in Nigeria
Unspeakable pain accompanies the fond memories and martyr theology. When on Saturday (July 9) some of Pastor Elisha’s children overheard neighborhood kids playing soccer say that a woman who preaches regularly had been killed, they rushed home to ask him if she had...