

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
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
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
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...

Pastor, Two other Christians Kidnapped in Plateau State, Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 14, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Gunmen early Wednesday (Sept. 13) kidnapped a pastor and two other Christians in Jos East County, Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Usman Umaru of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) was...

Terrorists Take the Lives of 37 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 13, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed 10 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, where 27 others were slain in August, sources said. The terrorists attacked Kulben village, Mangu County,...

Christian Couple Jailed, Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 12, 2023 (Morning Star News) – The three young children of a Christian couple jailed on baseless charges of desecrating the Koran in Lahore, Pakistan last week have no relatives to care for them and are extremely upset, a rights advocate...

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
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...

Pastor Shot after Receiving Islamist Threats in Jaranwala, Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 4, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A pastor was shot and wounded by hardline Muslims on Sunday evening (Sept. 3) in Jaranwala, Pakistan a week after Islamist slogans were written on the walls of his church building, sources said. The Rev....

Christians Object to Injustices following Attacks in Jaranwala, Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, September 2, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Church and rights leaders in Pakistan are demanding an investigation into anti-Christian rioting in Jaranwala amid illegal arrests of area Christians and a police claim of a “foreign conspiracy” to create...

Forced Conversion/Marriage of Minority Girls Targeted in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 31, 2023 (Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for...

Terrorists Kidnap Two Christians, Kill Baptist Pastor in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, August 30, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Two Christians were kidnapped on Friday (Aug. 25) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, two days after gunmen described as terrorists killed a Baptist pastor in another area of the state, sources said. Terrorists on Friday...

Police in India Press Churches to Provide Information on Activities
HYDERABAD, India, August 24, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in India have issued questionnaires to at least 40 churches in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state seeking information that Christians fear will be used by Hindu extremists to attack them, sources said. The...

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...

Christian in Pakistan Charged with Blasphemy for TikTok Upload
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 22, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan on Saturday night (Aug. 19) charged a Christian with blasphemy for uploading on TikTok a video of content that last week led to attacks on Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala more than...

3-Month Jail Term Given for Halting Christian Worship in Indonesia
SURABAYA, Indonesia, August 21, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A court in Indonesia last week sentenced a Muslim to three months in jail for halting a Christian worship service. Sources said reducing the charge from blasphemy to disrupting a worship service, combined with...

Blasphemy Accusation Sparks Attacks on Christians in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, August 18, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Instigated by mosque leaders, Muslim mobs on Wednesday (Aug. 16) burned 20 church buildings and ransacked Christian homes and businesses in Jaranwala, Pakistan after a Muslim framed two Christians in a false...

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
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...