MALINDI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Police in Kenya’s coastal area are searching for a gunman who shot a Christian dead at the gate leading to a church worship site on Sunday (Jan. 11) in Mombasa. One of two men following 25-year-old George Muriki as he arrived with two church members at the gate […]
Christian Shot to Death Outside Church in Mombasa, Kenya
Day after young man killed, 70-year-old Christian is wounded.
January 15, 2015 By -
Suspected Islamic Extremists in Libya Abduct 13 Egyptian Christians
Third attack on area Christians in two weeks.
January 5, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In the most recent of a series of kidnappings and killings targeting Egyptian Christians in Libya, 13 Christians in the country were abducted on Saturday (Jan. 3). A group of armed men thought to be members of an Islamic militia group burst into a housing complex in Sirte, Libya […]
Attacks by Islamic Extremists in Nigeria Leave at Least 28 Christians Dead
Fulani herdsmen, suicide bomber ring in new year with violence in three states.
January 3, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani gunmen on Friday (Jan. 2) killed 15 Christians in an area of Kaduna state where 10 others were killed on Dec. 27, ending a week of violence in Nigeria in which at least 28 died. The ethnic Fulani herdsmen killed the 15 Christians in Ambe-Madaki village, in Kaduna’s […]
Motive for Murder of Evangelist in Colombia Remains Mystery in Spite of Confession
Indigenous tribal brothers admit killing outspoken Christian but won’t say why.
December 31, 2014 By -
AUSTIN, Texas (Morning Star News) – Two brothers have confessed to the murder in a west Colombian mountainside jungle of a lay evangelist whom a local Roman Catholic priest had threatened, sources said. The brothers of the indigenous Nasa tribe, also called Paez, have refused to tell investigators why they killed Pabel A. Losada Trujillo, […]
African Shamans in Uganda Injure Christians, Damage Church Building
Animist leaders attack on orders of spirit-god of Lake Victoria, they say.
December 30, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – African shamans wielding clubs and stones stormed a church on a Ugandan island in Lake Victoria on Dec. 22, sending about 30 Christians to hospitals for treatment, the pastor said. Pastor Sarah Kalaja of Kisaba Prayer Palace Christian Church at Kisaba landing site on Bukasa Island, told Morning […]
Muslim Fulani Gunmen in Nigeria Kill Infant among 15 Christians Slain in Two Attacks
Herdsmen launch early morning raids in Taraba and Kaduna states.
December 29, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed five Christians in one state, including an infant boy, and 10 in another on Dec. 17. In Taraba state in the northeast, more than 100 Muslim Fulani herdsmen invaded Sabon Gida Shagogo village in the Donga Local Government Area in the early morning, area […]
South Sudanese Pastor Jailed after Preaching at Church in North Khartoum, Sudan
The Rev. Yat Michael detained since Dec. 14.
December 28, 2014 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Security personnel in Sudan have held a pastor from South Sudan since Dec. 14 after he delivered a sermon at an embattled North Khartoum church. Agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Yat Michael of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church after Sunday worship […]
Christmas Season Brings Christianity under Renewed Attack in India
Violence, arrests and Hindu extremist ‘reconversion’ events bring tensions.
December 23, 2014 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christmas-related anti-Christian violence and harassment have begun as Hindu extremists undertake an aggressive effort to “reconvert” tribal people to Hinduism, sources said. Police arrested and Hindu extremists attacked Christians in three Christmas-related incident in three states the past two weeks. “Christians in India are apprehensive of having a peaceful Christmas […]
Pastor in Kenya Fears His Life Is in Imminent Danger from Islamic Extremists
Convert of Somali descent says Al Shabaab has put bounty on his head.
December 18, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Kenya of Somali descent whom Islamic extremist Al Shabaab militants have threatened for leaving Islam fears he soon could be killed. Somali Al Shabaab rebels have offered a reward to anyone who kills the Rev. Mahad H. Birik, and after a video of him describing his conversion […]
Islamist Herdsmen, Mercenaries Attack Christians in Benue, Nigeria from Nasarawa
Five killed in predominantly Roman Catholic community.
December 17, 2014 By -
MAKURDI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state and Islamist mercenaries from outside Nigeria attacked villages in neighboring Benue state on Sunday (Dec. 14), killing five Christians, sources said. Inhabited almost entirely by ethnic Idoma farmers, the Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state, with mercenaries from Chad and Niger, razed several villages, destroying […]