JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Air Force bomb on Monday (May 25) killed a 3-year-old girl and wounded her Christian mother at their home in Kauda, South Kordofan state, sources said. In the latest civilian death in nearly 3,500 government bombings of civilian targets since April 2012, Kaka Abdu Kuku Tiral died […]
Sudan’s Aerial Bombing Kills 3-Year-Old Girl, Wounds Mother in Nuba Mountains
Two others injured, church compound damaged.
May 28, 2015 By -
Noted Convert from Islam in Egypt Regularly Beaten in Prison, Attorney Says
Jailers try to humiliate the former Mohammed Hegazy into recanting.
May 27, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Egypt are regularly beating and dragging across a concrete prison floor noted convert Bishoy Armia Boulous, formerly known as Mohammed Hegazy, his attorney said. Imprisoned by Egyptian authorities on trumped-up charges for photographing Muslim attacks on Christians and then held illegally after his sentence was complete, Boulous is […]
Islamic Mob Attacks Houses, Church over ‘Blasphemy’ Accusation in Pakistan
Mentally challenged Christian accused of burning papers containing koranic verses.
May 26, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Christians in Lahore are on edge after hundreds of Muslims attacked houses and a church building on Sunday night (May 24) in response to accusations that a Christian set fire to papers with koranic verses on them. Chaudhry Alam Masih, a resident of Dhoop Sari in Lahore’s Sandha area, told Morning […]
Pastor, More than 70 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen burn homes, church buildings.
May 14, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen killed a church pastor and more than 70 other Christians in Plateau state in the past month, sources said. Setting fire to church buildings and houses in attacks that continued this week, Fulani Muslim herdsmen on May 2 killed the Rev. Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ in […]
Young Sudanese Refugee Cast Out of Home for Leaving Islam
Convert experiences power of God amid uncertainty, instability.
May 4, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – First an 18-year-old Sudanese Muslim became a refugee from Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state; then he received Christ and became a refugee from his family. Kuku (full name withheld) and his family, ethnic Nuba from the Kauda area, arrived at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan in 2011, shortly […]
Religious Persecution in China Dramatically Worsened in 2014, Group Says
Advocacy organization reports steep increase in cases, people harmed.
April 24, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians in China reached its highest level in more than a decade last year as the government cracked down on church growth perceived as a threat to Communist Party power, according to a U.S.-based advocacy group. Texas-based China Aid Association (CAA) this week reported 572 cases of religious – […]
Bones Broken in Attack on Evangelistic Gathering in Telangana State, India
Christian leaders file formal complaint of police inaction.
April 20, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians sustained broken bones and wounds when Hindu extremists on April 8 attacked an open-air gospel event in Telangana state, India, sources said. Police initially refused to help church members after the mob of about 100 Hindu extremists seriously injured four Christians in the attack in Pebbair, Mahabubnagar District, they […]
Hindu Extremists Block Good Friday Service, Beat Christians in Uttar Pradesh, India
Pastor ordered to vacate rented property.
April 10, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Under pressure from Hindu extremists, local officials kept a church from meeting on Good Friday (April 3) in India’s Uttar Pradesh state and ordered the pastor to vacate the property, the church leader said. Pastor Daniel Singh of Salvation for Asia Church in Swar, near Rampur, told Morning Star News his two-year […]
Al Shabaab Gunmen Target Christians in Attack on University in Kenya
At least 147 dead, 79 wounded.
April 2, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya – Islamic extremists from Somalia-based Al Shabaab today targeted Christians in an attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 147 people, including two policemen. An area church leader who visited some of the more than 79 wounded people in a hospital told Morning Star News that patients said members of […]
Christians in Haryana, India Hit with Beatings, Official Opposition, Discrimination
Christian loses his job after Hindu extremists publically revile his faith.
March 30, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A rash of anti-Christian attacks this month hit Haryana state in northern India, where a new chief minister spoke against Christians and 45 were severely beaten at a burial service. A mob of more than 700 Hindu extremists on March 6 assaulted the 45 Christians as they began burial rites […]