(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 rituals, according to a Mexico City-based news outlet. The family patriarch, identified only as Fernando […]
Extended Family Expelled from Village in Chiapas, Mexico
In two other states, three more Catholic priests shot dead.
October 21, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
Court Ruling in Argentina Spurs Prosecution of Aggression against Church
Criminal charges pursued in case of death threats, violence.
September 25, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – After years of inaction, federal prosecutors in Argentina are pursuing criminal charges against perpetrators of religious persecution against an evangelical church in Rio Tercero, Cordoba. The prosecution follows a May 29 judicial ruling that declared the long-running campaign of threats, vandalism and violence against the Pueblo Grande Baptist Church “a […]
Christians in Mexico Deprived of Homes for Refusing to Renounce their Faith
Three incidents in one month by ‘Traditionalist Catholics,’ including physical attack.
February 3, 2015 By - 3 Comments
AUSTIN, Texas (Morning Star News) – In one of at least three instances of persecution of Christians in southern Mexico’s Chiapas state last month, village leaders reneged on their agreement to allow 47 evangelicals who were expelled for their faith to return to their homes and land. In accordance with the agreement arranged by state officials, […]
Motive for Murder of Evangelist in Colombia Remains Mystery in Spite of Confession
Indigenous tribal brothers admit killing outspoken Christian but won’t say why.
December 31, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
AUSTIN, Texas (Morning Star News) – Two brothers have confessed to the murder in a west Colombian mountainside jungle of a lay evangelist whom a local Roman Catholic priest had threatened, sources said. The brothers of the indigenous Nasa tribe, also called Paez, have refused to tell investigators why they killed Pabel A. Losada Trujillo, […]
Baptist Pastor in Argentina Narrowly Escapes Assassination
Hit men with ties to drug traffickers – and possibly to police – suspected.
November 6, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – A local church reaches out to victims of substance abuse, opens a shelter for battered women and works to rescue minors from prostitution and sex trafficking. In most places in the Americas, such compassionate community service wins admiration and respect, sometimes even an award from the mayor’s office. In Rio […]
How to Read a Persecution News Story
Pray – if you can figure out how.
November 1, 2014 By - 6 Comments
(Morning Star News) – Any of you who regularly follow persecution news may find that it gets hard to read after a while. In response to reader requests on how to deal with so much horrific news – one becomes either despondent or desensitized – I’ll share how I handle it. The horror of some […]
Bolivia’s Evangelical Christians Launch Fight for Religious Freedom
Protestant association files constitutional appeal against restrictive new laws.
August 21, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – Evangelical Christians have begun their battle against new measures that could result in the dissolution of Protestant denominations and other groups that have ministered in Bolivia for decades. As organizations that fail to comply with the new government measures will lose their legal standing, the National Association of Evangelicals of […]
German Homeschooling Case Highlights Questions about Persecution, Asylum
Were the Romeikes persecuted? If so, should the U.S. have granted asylum?
April 29, 2014 By - 1 Comment
(Morning Star News) – Should a family educating their children at home out of faith-based conviction in a country where homeschooling is illegal be able to claim asylum in the United States on grounds of religious persecution? For Uwe and Hannelore Romeike of Germany, who arrived in the United States in 2008, the question hovered […]
Colombian Guerrilla Group Bans Worship Services, Threatens Pastors
An estimated 150 churches closed since July.
December 18, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – Christians in southern Colombia are living in constant danger from a guerrilla army that has banned worship services in rural areas under its control. An estimated 150 churches have been forced to close since July, when the 32nd Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP in Spanish) […]
Head of Town in Mexico Sends Mob to Beat, Abduct Christians
Traditionalist Catholics in Oaxaca demolish church building under construction.
November 11, 2013 By - 2 Comments
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Traditionalist Catholics abducted, jailed and beat a group of evangelical Christians with rods and stones in Oaxaca, Mexico last week on orders from the head of a municipality, according to human rights officials. A mob sent by San Juan Ozolotepec President Pedro Cruz Gonzalez on Nov. 4 attacked the […]