NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – African shamans wielding clubs and stones stormed a church on a Ugandan island in Lake Victoria on Dec. 22, sending about 30 Christians to hospitals for treatment, the pastor said. Pastor Sarah Kalaja of Kisaba Prayer Palace Christian Church at Kisaba landing site on Bukasa Island, told Morning […]
African Shamans in Uganda Injure Christians, Damage Church Building
Animist leaders attack on orders of spirit-god of Lake Victoria, they say.
December 30, 2014 By -
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 -
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 […]
Al Shabaab Islamists Again Attack Non-Muslims near Mandera, Kenya, Killing 36
Most of those slain said to be Christians from outside the area.
December 2, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Members of the Islamic extremist insurgent group Al Shabaab early this morning killed 36 non-Muslims, most of them Christian, in an attack in northern Kenya, sources said. Coming 10 days after the Somali insurgents’ assault in the same area that left 28 non-Muslims dead, including 19 Christians, today’s massacre triggered […]
Al Shabaab Executes 28 Non-Muslims in Northern Kenya
At least 19 Christians among those killed.
November 23, 2014 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the Somali insurgent Al Shabaab stopped a bus in northern Kenya on Saturday (Nov. 22), separated out the non-Muslims and killed 28 people, including at least 19 Christians, sources said. Among those executed, an area Christian leader told Morning Star News, were 10 members of the Seventh-day […]
Human Rights Defender in Sudan without Home, Country after Muslim Extremist Attack
Convert from Islam flees Darfur after trying to exercise right to free speech.
October 29, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese father of two who once worked as a human rights defender now lives in a refugee camp after surviving an attempt on his life by Islamic extremists. Before Ibrahim Ismaeil Ibrahim, 34, left Islam and dared to criticize the religion, he worked as a writer and human rights […]
Sudan Shutters 500-Member Church in Khartoum
Christian from Uganda ordered to leave country.
September 3, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Security agents in Sudan padlocked a 500-member church’s building on Aug. 24, said Christian sources who fear the government may try to sell it. In the latest incident in a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) forcibly closed the Sudan […]
Convert from Islam in Kenya Released from Prison after Beatings, Attempted Poisoning
Muslim leaders seek to kill him for his faith even as police suspect him as Islamic terrorist.
August 14, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A recent convert from Islam arrested under suspicion of being a Muslim terrorist has been released, but not before his father tried to poison him for his faith, he said. Authorities in Western Kenya, preparing release papers for Hussein Hassan Mohammed, 30, after he served two weeks of his one-month […]
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 -
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 -
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 […]
Christians Killed in Attacks in Coastal Region of Kenya
Amid ethnic and political conflicts, religion also appears as factor in killings.
July 9, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two Christians near Kenya’s coast were killed Monday night (July 7) following attacks by suspected Islamic extremists over the weekend on two predominantly Christian villages that left more than 30 people dead, sources said. In the attack Monday night, the assailants arrived at Covenant Church, three kilometers north of Hindi, […]