NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hassan Muwanguzi, poisoned earlier this year in Uganda by Muslim relatives, did not expect the Muslim extremists who threatened to kill him on June 16 to murder his 12-year-old daughter. Muwanguzi did not recognize the four men who appeared at his door that evening and forced their way into his […]
Daughter of Poisoned Christian in Uganda Strangled to Death
Muslim extremists threaten to kill former sheikh but instead attack 12-year-old girl.
June 26, 2014 By -
Christians Targeted in Massacre by Al Shabaab in Kenya
Deaths in coastal town of Mpeketoni could top those of Westgate mall attack.
June 16, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels attacked a predominantly Christian town on Kenya’s coast Sunday night (June 15), selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people, area sources said. The estimated 50 Al Shabaab militants attacked two hotels, a police station and other buildings in Mpeketoni, […]
Key Leader of Somalia’s Underground Church Slain
Pastor oversaw five groups in nearly 100 percent Muslim country.
May 23, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Underground Christians in Somalia are struggling to recover from the loss of a prominent church leader gunned down in March. As in many cases of the mounting number of murders of secret Christians in Somalia, Islamic extremists with the Al Shabaab rebel group were suspected in the March 16 shooting […]
Convert from Islam in Kenya Beaten, Arrested
New Christian’s whereabouts unknown.
May 22, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Within three weeks of putting his faith in Christ, a 26-year-old former Muslim in western Kenya was beaten in a mosque and later arrested without charges, Christian leaders said. Hassan Hussein Mohammed wouldn’t normally have admitted to being a Christian while attending mosque prayers. But he had to explain why […]
Somali Muslims in Kenya Freed after Stabbing Attack in Nairobi
Convert from Islam says they threatened to kill him.
May 14, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian convert of Somali descent in Kenya said he is concerned that Muslims who stabbed him in Nairobi have been released from jail as they await trial. Mohamud Yusuf Ahmed told Morning Star News that Ahmed Ali Mohammed and Issa Shidane Quru, also of Somali descent, stabbed him on Feb. […]
Muslim in Uganda Kills Daughter for Leaving Islam, Sister Says
Siblings went to church service after having same dream.
April 19, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The 17-year-old daughter of a Muslim man in Uganda was able to attend one church service this month before he killed her for leaving Islam, sources said. Abdul Hakim Ibanda of Kamuli town in eastern Uganda beat Nanvunani Shamimu and her 19-year-old sister, Nawudo Hasifa, with a blunt instrument […]
Convert from Islam in Uganda, Former Sheikh, Says Muslim Relatives Poisoned Him
Doctors provide antidote for substance used in insecticide; more treatment sought.
April 8, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in a village in eastern Uganda last week tried to poison him to death, the Christian told Morning Star News. Hassan Muwanguzi, who lost his wife and job as a schoolteacher shortly after his conversion in 2003, was hospitalized on March 31 in […]
Young Woman in Uganda Hospitalized after Father Beats Her; Mulinde’s Sight Saved
Elsewhere in country, church buildings, pastor’s home razed.
March 27, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A dream of praying in a church frightened a recent college graduate in Uganda, the Muslim daughter of sheikh; she knew he was capable of seriously hurting her for such a religious switch. Wenene Nuru, 23, of Iki-Iki township in Pallisa District, had been listening to a Christian-Muslim dialogue on […]
Gunmen Open Fire on Church in Mombasa, Kenya
At least seven dead in attack by suspected Islamic extremists.
March 24, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Gunmen entered a Sunday morning worship service in Kenya’s coastal Mombasa County yesterday and sprayed the congregation with bullets, killing at least seven Christians and leaving several others in critical condition. Two heavily-armed men wounded more than a dozen of the 200-member Joy in Jesus Church in the Likoni area […]
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead Two Christians
Al Shabaab militants publicly execute mother of two, cousin.
March 14, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia last week publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin in southeastern Somalia after discovering they were Christians, sources said. In the port town of Barawa in the Lower Shebelle Region, the extremists on March 4 called residents to the […]