NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists killed a pastor in northern Uganda on Saturday (Oct. 31) after he compared Christianity and Islam in a radio broadcast, sources said. David Omara, 64-year-old pastor of Christian Church Center and a well-known radio preacher in the area, was beaten and strangled after finishing his broadcast in Aduku, […]
Muslims Ambush, Kill Pastor after Radio Broadcast in Uganda
Community mourns loss of well-known preacher.
November 6, 2020 By -
Muslim Boys in Somalia Beat Christian’s 7-Year-Old Son
Convert says family has been ‘hunted’ for years.
October 30, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian in Somalia long persecuted for his faith had not seen his children attacked until this month, when an assault on his 7-year-old son sent him to the hospital for three days. The convert from Islam told Morning Star News he had finished a Bible study with other underground […]
Christian Boy in Uganda Feared Killed in Ritual Sacrifice
Radical Muslim sold convert’s son and daughter to witchdoctor, sources say.
September 28, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian boy has been killed after a woman said to be a radical Muslim opposed to his father’s conversion from Islam sold him and his sister to a witchdoctor for ritual sacrifice, sources said. Sulaiman Pulisi, a former imam (mosque leader) who became a Christian three years ago, said […]
Christian Dies, Cousin in Critical Condition after Assault in Uganda
Coronavirus lockdown forces disowned cousins to return to hostile home.
August 26, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – One young Christian man in eastern Uganda has died after family members beat him for leaving Islam while his cousin, also beaten, clings to life, sources said. The Muslim fathers and other relatives of the two men in Budaka Town beat them with sticks and other blunt objects in […]
Pastor, Church Member Die for Proclaiming Christ in Eastern Uganda
Hard-line Muslims beat and drown the two Christians, sources say.
July 30, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Christians in eastern Uganda had what seemed to be an effective strategy for bringing the gospel to Muslims on the banks of Lake Nakuwa, part of Lake Kyoga. The Christians from Namuseru village, Gadumire Sub-County in Kaliro District would cross the lake to go fishing and, as they interacted […]
Radical Muslims Beat 21-Year-Old Christian Woman Unconscious in Kenya
Family of Somali descent fled persecution in Nairobi last year.
July 9, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims in Isiolo, Kenya last month beat unconscious a 21-year-old Christian woman, a member of a family from Somalia that fled persecution in Nairobi in 2019, sources said. In the June 4 attack on Fozia (surname withheld), seven assailants also broke two teeth of her 19-year-old sister, Asha, […]
Villagers Burn Home, Beat Wife of Former Muslim Sheikh in Eastern Uganda
Another Christian convert also loses his home in separate attack.
June 22, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former sheikh (Muslim teacher) in eastern Uganda who secretly became a Christian on Christmas Day decided to tell his two wives about his new faith last month. Marijan Olupot invited his pastor to his home in Obokora village, Obokorasub County, Kibuku District on the evening of May 14. […]
Muslim Father in Uganda Burns Daughter for Becoming Christian
Unable to travel home due to coronavirus lockdown, she hears gospel.
May 21, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Unable to return to her home in western Uganda due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Rehema Kyomuhendo was in the eastern part of the country when she first heard about Christ. In March, Kyomuhendo – who is 24 but slight in stature and looks much younger – had accompanied her […]
Young Christian Woman and Pregnant Convert Seriously Injured in Eastern Uganda
Radical Muslims attack one for sharing her faith, the other for leaving Islam, sources say.
April 20, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A young woman who told a Muslim about Christ and a pregnant, formerly Muslim woman beaten for her new faith suffered serious injuries in eastern Uganda, sources said. Radical Muslims assaulted Lydia Nabirye, 23-year-old daughter of a Church of God evangelist, on April 7 at about 1 p.m. near […]
Families of Three Christian Schoolteachers Killed in Kenya Receive Aid
Al Shabaab attack in Garissa County targeted non-Muslims.
March 5, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The families of three Christian schoolteachers killed by Islamic extremists in northeastern Kenya have suffered loss beyond words, but aid from donors in Ireland is helping to compensate for lost income, they said. Somalia-based Al Shabaab militants on Jan. 13 killed Titus Sasaka, a member of the New Testament […]