NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five in eastern Uganda was pleasantly surprised when two Muslim neighbors visited her on Christmas morning with gifts of sugar, salt, soap, matchboxes, groundnuts and cooking oil. Nafamba Bongo Madina, whose children range in age from 5 to 14, thanked Taaka Hajira and the other Muslim neighbor […]
Christian in Uganda Who Lost Family to Muslims Beaten Unconscious
Former sheikh lost wife, three children.
December 7, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former sheikh (Islamic teacher) in eastern Uganda has been in hiding since he lost his family for putting his faith in Christ two years ago, but last month he was tricked into a life-threatening encounter. Mulangira Ibrahim, 27, was on his way to his pastor’s house after a church […]
Somali Muslims Break In, Beat Children of Christian Widow in Kenya
Two of three victims spend four days in hospital.
November 28, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya attacked a Christian widow’s children, ages 13, 17 and 21, leaving two of them seriously injured and still in pain 11 days after the assault, sources said. Hadiya (surname withheld), an immigrant from Somalia, had not yet returned from a trip to […]
Muslim Posing as Christian Teacher at School in Uganda Attacks Director, Sources Say
Students afraid to return to class.
November 16, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory International Nursery and Primary School have been afraid to return to class after Mugooda Siraji […]
Muslims Target Pastor with Criminal Accusation in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Child abuse charge drains church of twice-acquitted leader.
October 24, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A judge failed to show up at a hearing for a pastor facing accusations of child abuse in a case in Zanzibar that Muslims have kept alive after charges were twice dismissed, sources said. Shortly after charges were filed on the semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania in November […]
Muslim Father in Uganda Drives Son from Home for Becoming Christian
Young man cannot deny faith he tried to keep secret.
October 10, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The young man did not answer after his father asked him if he had ditched Islam to become a Christian. Magale (also called Mabala) Hamidu, 20, of Nanoko village in eastern Uganda, had become a Christian seven months before. He had been failing to attend mosque prayers, and his father […]
Al Shabaab Militants in Kenya Kill Four Christians
Somali Islamic extremists identify non-Muslims for slaughter.
September 7, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somali militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab killed four Christians in coastal Kenya on Wednesday (Sept. 6), a local source said. Shaken residents of Bobo village in Lamu County left their homes and slept in the cold of the wilds or in nearby Hindi after Al Shabaab members accompanied […]
Mother in Uganda Beaten, Driven from Home for Embracing Christianity
Woman leaves Islam after daughter is healed.
August 30, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said. Sophia Nakisaala, 35, turned to Christ on Aug. 7 after her daughter was healed when a street preacher she’d heard in Bulopa village, Kamuli District, prayed […]
Christian Mother Who Died in Detention in Eritrea Showed Signs of Torture, Mourners Note
Maltreatment may have contributed to her death, relative says.
August 25, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A relative at the burial of a Christian mother of three who died in detention in Eritrea told Morning Star News her body showed signs of torture that could have contributed to her death. Eritrean authorities arrested Fikadu Debesay and her husband in the southern town of Adi Quala as […]
Church in Zanzibar, Tanzania Shaken as Court Supports Muslims’ Opposition to Building
Christian leaders see Islamist bias in ruling.
July 26, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A court on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, ruled on Thursday (July 20) that a church cannot continue constructing a worship building it has tried to finish for eight years, sources said. Hard-line Muslims outside Zanzibar City have been fighting construction of the Pentecostal Assemblies […]