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...
Police in India Threaten to Fine Christians Attacked by Hindu Extremists
Though the center was filled with male drug addicts, she was an obedient and respectful prisoner. After many months, the warden told her to write a description of her conversion to Christianity, instructing her to blame Christians for fraudulently or forcibly...
Christian Killed in Eastern Uganda after Religious Discussion with Muslims
on June 4. The body of Yokannah Zirinkuma of Kasasira village, Kibuku District, was found in a pool of blood in nearby Kadama village, near the home of the primary suspect. Zirinkuma was 50. On May 15 in Kasecha village, Kibuku District, Micah Byamukama, pastor of...
No Anti-Christian Motive Seen in Killing of Pastor in India
New Dynamic Creates Opportunity China’s territorial expansion in and militarization of the South China Sea has Vietnam looking for friends and allies. This new dynamic gives Western democracies more leverage with Vietnam than they have had in years. What...
Police in Pakistan Arrest Christian Victim of Beating, Blasphemy Accusation
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 27, 2016 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Monday (May 23) jailed a Christian after Muslims upset that he tried to stop them from teasing girls beat him and accused him of posting blasphemous content on Facebook, sources said. Hospital...
Baptist Pastor Poisoned to Death in Eastern Uganda
from their respective homes on Dec. 18, 2015, with Shamaal released on Dec. 21 but required to report daily to NISS office, where he was held from 8 a.m. until midnight. That requirement was removed on Jan. 16. On May 10 his colleague, Abdelrahim Tawor, was...
Bill in Kaduna State, Nigeria Would Criminalize Street Evangelism, ‘Offensive’ Preaching, Clergy Say
Telahoon Nogose Kassa JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan today released one of two church leaders jailed since December, sources said. Telahoon Nogose Kassa, head of discipleship at the embattled Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, was released after Sudan’s...
Hindu Extremists in Uttar Pradesh, India Torture Christian Convert
Area Christian Leaders visit Joginder Gold in the hospital. (Morning Star News) Gold told police that Jesus Christ healed his sister from an illness eight years ago, and that after seeing the love and healing touch of Christ, his family put their trust in Him and...