HARGEISA, Somaliland (Morning Star News) – Desperate to avoid arrest in Somaliland for leaving Islam, one Christian fled to Ethiopia, while another in Somalia escaped kidnappers after losing fingers for his faith. Sharif (full name withheld for security reasons) said he had to leave his wife and four children behind in order to sneak out of […]
Somali Christians Fleeing Islamic Extremists Lose Family, Fingers
Converts from Islam in Somaliland, Somalia pay price for faith.
August 31, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
Shocked Kenyans Grieve Worst Islamic Extremist Assault since 1998
Survivors relate horrific details of onslaught by Al Shabaab.
April 8, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – As Kenya comes to grips with the worst attack on its soil since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, survivors revealed grim details of last week’s Islamic extremist assault. Separating out Christian students from Muslims, members of Somalia’s rebel Al Shabaab killed 148 people on Thursday (April […]
Al Shabaab Gunmen Target Christians in Attack on University in Kenya
At least 147 dead, 79 wounded.
April 2, 2015 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya – Islamic extremists from Somalia-based Al Shabaab today targeted Christians in an attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 147 people, including two policemen. An area church leader who visited some of the more than 79 wounded people in a hospital told Morning Star News that patients said members of […]
Five Christians Killed, One Critically Wounded, by Islamic Extremists in Kenya
Al Shabaab takes responsibility for shootings.
March 23, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
MANDERA, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia took responsibility for killing four Christians on Tuesday (March 17) and another on March 15 in northeastern Kenya. Somali rebel Al Shabaab militiamen or their Somali sympathizers have carried out several attacks on Kenyan soil the past two years, usually separating out Christians and executing them, […]
Two Christians Attacked, Church Building Burned in Coastal Kenya
Siblings assaulted in village where their father was slain last year.
March 19, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two siblings in their mid-20s were attacked and a church building burned last month in an area of Kenya where Islamic extremists killed at least 13 people last July – including the siblings’ father. Somalis in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County struck 25-year-old Annah after she answered their knock on the […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2014
For once, good news – miraculous righting of horrific injustice in Sudan – tops list.
January 9, 2015 By - 1 Comment
(Morning Star News) – In a year that saw a new level of cruelty unleashed upon Christians and other religious minorities across Syria, Iraq and Africa, one once obscure case of injustice in Sudan turned into a titanic battle that gripped the world’s attention. The battle appeared to be spiritual as much as legal. 1 – […]
Pastor in Kenya Fears His Life Is in Imminent Danger from Islamic Extremists
Convert of Somali descent says Al Shabaab has put bounty on his head.
December 18, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Kenya of Somali descent whom Islamic extremist Al Shabaab militants have threatened for leaving Islam fears he soon could be killed. Somali Al Shabaab rebels have offered a reward to anyone who kills the Rev. Mahad H. Birik, and after a video of him describing his conversion […]
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 […]
Somali Widow’s Life in Danger in Kenya after Reporting Assault to Police
Muslim elders warn Christian mother to drop case.
August 7, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia, upset that a Christian widow would not send her children to a Muslim school, attacked her and seek to kill her because she reported the assault to police, community members said. Hadiya (surname withheld), 51, said she has had to move house before in the face […]
Stay or Leave, Somali Christians in Kenyan Refugee Camps Face Danger
Islamic extremist threat reigns whether they remain or are repatriated.
July 31, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Somali convert from Islam and his wife were holding each other under their bed in a Kenyan refugee camp as gunmen outside their door threatened to shoot. Abukar Mohammed (surname withheld for security reasons), 36, suspected members of Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab insurgency who lived in the camp […]