NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In further anti-Christian hostilities in eastern Uganda, Muslims knocked a pastor unconscious at a debate and Islamist threats in another village put a halt to worship services. Threats by Muslims in Mazuba village, Namutumba District, stopped worship services in a half-constructed church building and led the pastor to send his […]
Islamist Violence against Christians in Uganda Injures Pastors, Stops Church Services
Threats compel pastor to send his children to another village.
July 13, 2018 By -
Traumatized Widows in Kenya Face Ordeal of How to Press On
Gruesome Islamic extremist attacks leave lasting scars.
July 6, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – One year after several Christian women lost their husbands to Islamic extremist attacks in coastal Kenya, they have few means of supporting their children. Gone is the Non-Governmental Organization aid initially offered to them at a camp for internally displaced people. The women, each with three to seven children, left […]
Authorities in Zanzibar, Tanzania Close Down Church
Officials stop worship service as crackdown continues.
May 24, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The pastor of a church on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar Island was preaching earlier this month when a plainclothes police officer and local officials strode into the church service. “One of the police officers in civilian clothes walked through the church’s door, stepped up to the podium and then grabbed the […]
Muslims in Eastern Uganda Desecrate Body of Slain Christian, Sources Say
Widow says villagers threatening to kill her.
May 4, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in eastern Uganda mutilated the corpse of a convert from Islam likely killed for his faith last month, his widow said. Fatuma Muluuta told Morning Star News that Muslims in Kachomo village, Budaka District cut and stuck pins into her husband’s body before burying it and have since […]
Muslim Relatives of New Christian in Eastern Uganda Attack Him with Hot Oil
Assault comes a week after converting.
March 23, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A week after a young Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, relatives attacked him with hot cooking oil, sources said. Gobera Bashir, 27, is still in pain with burns on 40 percent of his body after the assailants attacked him the night of March 10. Bashir, from […]
As More Christians Are Killed in Somalia, Number of Orphans Grows
Impoverished secret church unable to meet all their needs.
March 6, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist, Al Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care center for the orphans three years ago in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as more children of secret Christians were […]
Church Building Demolished in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Local government, university give no prior notice.
February 22, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A congregation on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar has been without a place to worship this year after local authorities demolished their church building, the pastor said. Local government officials gave no prior warning to church leaders before a bulldozer arrived on Jan. 7 and razed the building in Zanzibar […]
Suspected Al Shabaab Militants Kill Three Christians in Northeast Kenya, Sources Say
Islamic extremists shoot two teachers and wife of one to death.
February 19, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected members of Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab shot three Christians to death in northeastern Kenya at 1 a.m. on Friday (Feb. 16), sources said. Targeting Kenyans who came from other areas to work in predominantly Somali Wajir, some 100 miles from the Somali border, the suspected terrorists from the […]
Christian Convert in Uganda Suffers Sudden Loss of Father, Wife, Children
‘Infidel’ fears for his life.
January 31, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – In a village in eastern Uganda, it took no more than a day for Munabi Abudallah to lose his wife and seven children after putting his faith in Christ. “The Muslims are searching to kill me,” Abudallah, 37, told Morning Star News by phone. “My family members have deserted me. I […]
Christian Students Knifed, Beaten in High School Clash in Kenya
Muslim boys stab those who refused to convert, source says.
January 29, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim students at a high school in Nairobi on Tuesday night (Jan. 23) beat and stabbed Christians who refused to convert to Islam, a local source said. Tensions had been growing for weeks at Jamhuri High School in northern Nairobi, with Muslims primarily of Somali, Boran and Oromo descent complaining […]