NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in India this month sought to shame and malign Christians, as four women were publicly beaten in one village and a teacher was falsely accused of child molestation in another, sources said. In India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, 11 assailants dragged four Christian women from their prayer meeting […]
Hindu Extremists Strive to Mortify, Malign Christians in Jharkhand State, India
Accusation of child molestation in one case, tearing of woman’s clothes in another.
February 20, 2015 By -
Court in Laos Fines, Sentences Pastors to Prison for Praying for Sick Woman Who Died
Authorities try to stop spread of Christianity by abusing law, group says.
February 19, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – A pastor and four other church leaders in Laos were convicted last week of being “illegal doctors” because they prayed for a sick woman who later died. The People’s Court of Savannakhet Province on Feb. 12 sentenced the five Christians to nine months in prison and a fine of 500,000 kips […]
Sudan Helps Muslim Investors Take Over Last Piece of Church Land
Months of harassment culminate in deprivation of congregation’s ministry property.
February 18, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government today helped Muslim investors take over the remaining property of Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church in Khartoum North, church leaders said. Riot police on two trucks arrived at the church property at noon and assisted in the seizure of the land by force. “Over the past year […]
Christians Excluded from Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy’ Cases Fast-Tracked for Acquittal
Officials fear 'violent reaction' if they examine cases of non-Muslims.
February 13, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of people accused without basis of blaspheming Islam who will have their cases expedited for acquittal, sources said. Pointing to several Christians languishing in jail on trumped-up blasphemy charges, Christian rights and political activists say discrimination against religious minorities was behind the selection […]
Eight People Injured in Grenade Attack in Northern Kenya
At least one Christian among eight non-Muslims hit.
February 11, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A grenade attack in northern Kenya last week injured eight people, including at least one Christian, in an area where Somali Islamic extremists launched deadly anti-Christian attacks in December and November, sources said. The grenade landed among the non-Somali workers as they arrived to eat at the Moyale Hotel in […]
Hindu Extremist Mob Beats Christian House Church Leader near Mumbai, India
Welder among first to use new hotline for violence against Christians.
February 5, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian welder who oversees a home fellowship near Mumbai is on pain-killers with chest and back injuries after some 25 Hindu extremists on Jan. 24 beat him with iron bars, sources said. Threatening to kill him if he continued preaching and practicing his faith, members of the Hindu extremist […]
Christians in Mexico Deprived of Homes for Refusing to Renounce their Faith
Three incidents in one month by ‘Traditionalist Catholics,’ including physical attack.
February 3, 2015 By -
AUSTIN, Texas (Morning Star News) – In one of at least three instances of persecution of Christians in southern Mexico’s Chiapas state last month, village leaders reneged on their agreement to allow 47 evangelicals who were expelled for their faith to return to their homes and land. In accordance with the agreement arranged by state officials, […]
Faith of Christians in Niger Grows Stronger in Face of Unprecedented Violence
Churches could see further attacks as task of rebuilding begins.
January 23, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christians in Niger are joyfully meeting in homes under police protection as they plan to rebuild church buildings and houses after attacks last weekend (Jan. 16-18) that were unprecedented in scale. “Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened in this nation,” wrote one missionary couple in the capital, Niamey. “Nearly […]
Prison Time Withdrawn for Pastor in Bhutan Sentenced to Nearly Four Years
Sentence effectively reduced to a fine -- a bailable two years, four months.
January 20, 2015 By -
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Morning Star News) – A court in Bhutan yesterday reduced a sentence of nearly four years in prison to a bailable 28 months for pastor Tandin Wangyal, resulting in the father of three remaining free to attend to his family and ministry. More than 10 months after Pastor Wangyal was arrested for […]
Sudan Arrests Another South Sudanese Pastor
Second church leader in less than three weeks held without charges.
January 20, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The second pastor of South Sudanese descent in less than three weeks has been arrested without charges in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, sources said. Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Peter Yein Reith of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church on Jan. 11 as he […]