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Baseless Charge in India Leaves Pastor, Family in Ruins

Baseless Charge in India Leaves Pastor, Family in Ruins

NEW DELHI, September 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Not even a judge’s reprimand of police spared an impoverished pastor in India from being jailed on baseless claims of fraudulent conversion, one of the latest examples of how Hindu extremists misuse “anti-conversion”...

Muslim Mob Forces Christians Out of Building in Indonesia

Muslim Mob Forces Christians Out of Building in Indonesia

SURABAYA, Indonesia, September 20, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob protesting a church site outside Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday (Sept. 16) has forced the congregation to temporarily move worship services online, sources said. The Indonesia Bethel Church...

Algeria: Church leader convicted

Algeria: Church leader convicted

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 18, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Sept. 15) killed 15 Christians in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. The attack on Dogon Noma village, Kajuru County came amid disclosure that such attacks have led to the...

Iran: Ethnic Armenian Iranian citizen released

Iran: Ethnic Armenian Iranian citizen released

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on Sept. 6 beat a 33-year-old evangelist to death for leading Muslims to faith in Christ at an event in eastern Uganda, sources said. After the evangelistic event in Kituuti town, Philip Bere...

Terrorists Kill Christian Couple in Taraba, Nigeria

Terrorists Kill Christian Couple in Taraba, Nigeria

. “They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states. Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian...

Muslims with Machete, Club Halt Worship in Indonesia

Muslims with Machete, Club Halt Worship in Indonesia

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 8, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night (Sept. 7) in a failed kidnapping attempt, sources said. In an attack at...

Evangelist, other Christians in Uganda Assaulted

Evangelist, other Christians in Uganda Assaulted

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 23, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said. Robert Faisali Miya, a...

Mobs Impede Christian Worship at Two Churches in Indonesia

Mobs Impede Christian Worship at Two Churches in Indonesia

SURABAYA, Indonesia, August 15, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Mobs in northern Indonesia this month blocked a church from its Sunday service venue in one town and damaged a worship building under construction in another, sources said. In Riau Islands Province, about 30...

Iran: Former prisoner pardoned

Iran: Former prisoner pardoned

HYDERABAD, India, August 11, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in central India on July 26 beat a Christian educator and filed baseless charges against him of human trafficking and fraudulent conversion of eight Christian students he was escorting to a Bible...