(Morning Star News) – Any of you who regularly follow persecution news may find that it gets hard to read after a while. In response to reader requests on how to deal with so much horrific news – one becomes either despondent or desensitized – I’ll share how I handle it. The horror of some […]
How to Read a Persecution News Story
Pray – if you can figure out how.
November 1, 2014 By - 6 Comments
‘Defending Islam’ Guarantees Impunity as Malaysia Bans Non-Muslims from Using ‘Allah
Islamist advocates burning Bibles containing the forbidden word.
October 17, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin) – Little inflames Malaysia’s Muslim fundamentalists more than the fact that Malaysian Christians use the word “Allah,” even though it is just the Malay word for God, adopted from Arabic centuries ago. The issue has gained traction in recent decades as Malaysian Muslims have radicalized, as Malaysia has gradually Islamized and, […]
Nightmare Continues for Family of Freed Prisoner of Conscience in China
Wife of Gao Zhisheng calls on U.S. to urge China to let him travel for medical treatment.
September 17, 2014 By - 1 Comment
(Morning Star News) – When Chinese authorities released Christian human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng from prison on Aug.7, we didn’t hear anything from him, presumably because of the communist state’s one-year prohibition against him saying anything publicly that might “damage the reputation or interests of the state.” His family had telephone conversations with him, but […]
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Mosul, Iraq Demands Response
Severe hardships afflict Christians in Islamist insurgency’s takeover.
July 29, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Less than a week after Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) described the Islamist takeover of Mosul, Iraq as genocide and challenged the West to counteract it, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, published a trenchant piece on the Fox News website asserting that ISIS, the Sunni Muslim […]
Boko Haram Attacks Relentless in Wake of Kidnapping of Girls in Nigeria
Christians seek to defend themselves as trust in army falters.
July 8, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – After a massacre in which members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group last month dressed in Nigerian Army fatigues, Christian leaders believe elements in the military must be complicit in the often-unchallenged attacks on Christians. In the wake of the group’s kidnapping of more than 300 high school girls, Boko […]
Christians in Vietnam Church Center Beaten, Locked Up in Massive Raid
Authorities show brazen disregard for law, religious rights.
June 24, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Blaring police loudspeakers awoke Bible school students at a Mennonite church center in southern Vietnam at about 11 p.m. the night of June 9, a prelude to a night of violence and detention that would seriously injure 20 people. Police called for the owner of the compound in Binh Duong Province […]
Death Penalty, Flogging for Christian Woman in Sudan Consistent with Islamic Law
In sentencing Meriam Ibrahim, Sudan is far from violating sharia.
May 24, 2014 By - 1 Comment
(Morning Star News) – The sentence of 100 lashes and death by hanging that a Sudanese judge handed to Meriam Ibrahim is consistent with Islamic law, contrary to Islamic leaders and others who cite her case as an anomaly. In a case that has drawn international condemnation since Morning Star News first broke the story, […]
Before Chibok: A Nigerian Kidnapping Story Told but Unheard
Massive scale of abduction, social media help long-ignored issue become known.
May 9, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As U.S. officials and other global players try to help recover about 180 girls kidnapped from a majority-Christian high school in Nigeria’s Borno state last month, scores of similarly heart-breaking stories of Islamist abductions have gone unheeded. One such case involved a Christian father of three girls from Chibok, the […]
Malatya, Seven Years Later – Signs of Hope Amid Oppression in Turkey
New church, renewed faith accompany commemoration of martyrs.
April 29, 2014 By - 3 Comments
MALATYA, Turkey (Morning Star News) – On the stone base over the grave of Uğur Yüksel, three words are etched into the blood-red marble: “Killed like Jesus.” These few words indict the men who killed Yüksel for his faith, encourage Christians he left behind and call to Turks who suspect there might be a way to […]
Authorities in Vietnam Incite Villagers to Attack Christian Converts
Ethnic minorities targeted in rural areas.
April 15, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Inciting social hostility appears to have become a key way government officials in rural Vietnam try to contain, or at least slow, the growth of Christianity among ethnic minorities, sources said. Ethnic Hmong Christians were the targets of two incidents the past two months in Vietnam’s northwest. Village officials in Son […]