(Morning Star News) – An 84-year-old Christian in Shanxi Province, China was among people in at least five provinces ordered to remove Christian imagery from their homes and replace them with pictures of President Xi Jinping, religious rights magazine Bitter Winter reported. “The township [Chinese Communist] Party [CCP] secretary asked me to take down and […]
Christians in China Forced to Replace Christian Items with Portraits of President
84-year-old man is told to pray to Communist Party leader.
August 12, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
Hopes Wilt for Teaching Christianity in Schools in Sudan
Obligatory classes on Islam result in Islamization, sources say.
June 18, 2020 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Hopes that the transitional government in Sudan would allow Christianity as a school subject alongside Islam wilted when officials omitted it from an academic schedule released last week, sources said. Doubly disappointed when an expected TV broadcast of school lessons on Christianity was omitted from the government-owned Television […]
Harsh Sentence for Pastor Wang Signals Severe Crackdown in China, Sources Say
Early Rain Covenant Church leader given nine years in prison.
January 3, 2020 By - 2 Comments
(Morning Star News) – The sentencing of pastor Wang Yi to nine years in prison this week for “subversion” and “illegal business activities” shows how authorities in China are increasingly intolerant of unregistered churches, sources said. Pastor Wang of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, was sentenced in closed-door […]
Crackdown on Christianity in China Ramps Up
Persecution rising toward levels under Chairman Mao, sources say.
December 16, 2019 By - 4 Comments
(Morning Star News) – As more government officials in China are empowered to close churches and a “social credit” system threatens to block Christians from schools, bank loans and jobs, authorities have taken harsh measures against more churches, sources said. Early Rain Covenant Church elder Qin Defu was sentenced to four years in prison on […]
Al-Baghdadi Is Dead, but the Fight Goes On
Demolish strongholds with weapons not of this world.
October 29, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The death Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State (IS), did not come as a surprise to many across the world – many terrorists brandishing a gun in one hand and the Koran in the other have gone the same way. Boko Haram, the terrorist group now allied […]
Decade of Tears and Blood: 10 Years of Boko Haram Terrorism in Nigeria
Entire communities uprooted as 35,000 civilians are slain.
September 20, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A decade after Boko Haram began a bloody campaign to impose sharia (Islamic law) on all of Nigeria, Christian leaders say some areas are still under the control of the terrorists. The Rev. Mohammed Abubakar Naga, chairman of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), told […]
Hindu Nationalism Increasingly Evident in India, Sources Say
Mob reflects notion that all things non-Hindu have no place in country.
August 23, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – The Hindu nationalists shouting at Christian leaders who were summoned to a police station in southern India asked what gave them the right to lead Christian congregations in a Hindu country. “Who gave you the permission to run a church in a Hindu country?” they shouted, falsely accusing the three […]
Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria Continue Campaign for Territory for their Cattle – and Islam
Another 11 Christians killed in Taraba state.
June 21, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen continued a campaign of seizing land for their cattle and territory for their religion this week, killing 11 Christians in eastern Nigeria’s Taraba state, sources said. The herdsmen on Sunday and Monday (June 16-17) entered villages on motorcyles outside of the Taraba state capital, Jalingo, shooting firearms […]
Nigeria: Herdsmen Attacks, Boko Haram and the Cross
When danger draws near, draw closer to God.
April 21, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – At midnight on April 14 I received a phone call about an attack in Konshu village, confirming my fear that it was only a matter of time before Muslim Fulani herdsmen atrocities in Nigeria reached my native home area of Akwanga, Nasarawa state. In the course of investigating anti-Christian violence […]
Police Responsible for Disappearance of Pastor in Malaysia, Rights Commission Concludes
Calls made for government to reopen investigation.
April 4, 2019 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – A human rights committee in Malaysia has concluded that police officers were responsible for the 2017 disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh, according to published reports. The prime minister of Malaysia told reporters late Wednesday (April 3) that the government would investigate the abduction of the pastor and the 2016 disappearance of […]