MANDERA, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia took responsibility for killing four Christians on Tuesday (March 17) and another on March 15 in northeastern Kenya. Somali rebel Al Shabaab militiamen or their Somali sympathizers have carried out several attacks on Kenyan soil the past two years, usually separating out Christians and executing them, […]
Five Christians Killed, One Critically Wounded, by Islamic Extremists in Kenya
Al Shabaab takes responsibility for shootings.
March 23, 2015 By -
Rape of Elderly Nun in India Premeditated, Police Report Indicates
Gunmen deliberately targeted Christianity, church leaders say.
March 22, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal was a planned part of an attack on a Christian institution and not merely an after-thought in a robbery as portrayed in mainstream media, Christian leaders say. A police report submitted to the state government said the suspects in the incident […]
Two Christians Attacked, Church Building Burned in Coastal Kenya
Siblings assaulted in village where their father was slain last year.
March 19, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two siblings in their mid-20s were attacked and a church building burned last month in an area of Kenya where Islamic extremists killed at least 13 people last July – including the siblings’ father. Somalis in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County struck 25-year-old Annah after she answered their knock on the […]
Religious Tensions Simmer Across Pakistan following Church Bombings
Christian leaders condemn retaliation killings by furious Christian mobs.
March 16, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tensions simmered across Pakistan between the Muslim majority and Christians following Sunday’s (March 15) deadly gun-and-bomb attacks on two churches and the subsequent killing of two Muslims here. At least 17 people, including two policemen, have succumbed to their injuries from the suicide attacks in Lahore’s Youhanabad area, which targeted […]
Christian Girl in Uganda Who Fled Beating by Muslim Uncle Mysteriously Dies
Muslim relatives in search of convert arrive at her hospital day before her death.
March 12, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 12, 2015 (Morning Star News) – A 16-year-old girl in Uganda who fled from a Muslim uncle who beat her for becoming a Christian mysteriously died on Sunday (March 8) after relatives searching for her discovered her whereabouts the previous day. Namwase Aisha died at 5:30 p.m. at Iganga Hospital in eastern […]
Days after Police Brutality in Rajasthan, India, Hindu Extremists Attack in M.P.
Prime minister’s talk of religious freedom rings hollow, Christians say.
March 10, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Days after police tortured 20 Christians in India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan, Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh struck two churches in four days. In central India’s Madhya Pradesh, where a law against forced or fraudulent conversions is routinely invoked to harass Christians – though none has ever been found guilty – members […]
Kidnapped Missionary in Nigeria Released
Phyllis Sortor, 71, freed after 11 days of captivity.
March 7, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The Free Methodist Church USA announced the release of its kidnapped missionary in Nigeria, Phyllis Sortor. In a statement signed on behalf of the Board of Bishops of the church, David W. Kendall said the 71-year-old Sortor was released by her captors on Friday evening (March 6). Kendall said armed gunmen abducted […]
Villagers in Nigeria Hopeful that Kidnapped Missionary Will Be Released
Long-time teacher is like grandmother to many at school, church.
March 6, 2015 By -
LOKOJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nearly two weeks after heavily armed men kidnapped a long-time missionary in a remote area of Nigeria, despondent colleagues and others are still hopefully praying for her release. Phyllis Sortor, born to U.S. missionaries in Africa and now a widowed grandmother, was kidnapped on Feb. 24 from Hope Academy school in […]
Islamic Extremists in Sub-Saharan Africa Pursue Convert from Islam Who Fled Egypt
After family tortures him, Christian tracked by relative, consulate and violent Islamists.
February 26, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – When Ahmed Ali, a Christian convert from Islam, fled his native Egypt to a sub-Saharan nation after months of torture by his father and brothers, loneliness was not his worst problem. On the streets of the capital city of the African country (undisclosed for security reasons) last month, Ali’s uncle […]
U.S. Evangelist Wins Five-Year Battle for Residency in Turkey
Co-founder of Bible correspondence course faced threat of deportation.
February 25, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – After a five-year court battle, a U.S. evangelist singled out by Turkey’s Ministry of the Interior for deportation because of his outreach activities has been granted a residency permit to stay in Turkey. David Byle was issued a residency permit at the end of January after five years of living […]