DELHI (Morning Star News) – Authorities in the Maldives held a Bangladeshi Christian in jail for 23 days before deporting him for bringing Christian literature into the South Asian archipelago that claims to be 100 percent Muslim. Customs officials found Jathish Biswas with 11 books on Christianity in the Dhivehi language, the Christian worker said. […]
Christian Deported from Maldives for Bringing in Literature
Bangladeshi development worker blacklisted from island country.
November 30, 2012 By -
Christians Killed, Church Building Destroyed in Sudan Bombing
Northern regime continues ‘ethnic cleansing’ on its own soil.
November 29, 2012 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese military in the last two weeks has bombed more non-Arab people in largely Christians areas of the Nuba Mountains – killing three Christians, destroying two relief agency structures and demolishing a Catholic Church building, sources said. Dawla Angalo, 60, a member of the Catholic Church in Heiban, […]
Christians in Laos Resist Severe Pressures to Recant Faith
Communist authorities threaten expulsion from villages.
November 27, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – In Lao villages far from the international community’s eye, Christians who refuse to take part in traditions involving worship of ancestral spirits face severe pressures. Authorities in southern Laos recently tried to force more than 200 Christians in six villages in Savannakhet Province to convert back to traditional, ethnic […]
Suicide Bombers Strike Church in Northern Nigeria
Two student-pastors among 11 slain in blast in Kaduna state.
November 26, 2012 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Two seminary students serving as pastors at a church bombed yesterday in Jaji, in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, were among 11 Christians killed in the suicide attack, the school’s president said. The Rev. Titus Sambo and Israel Olaleye, students at Baptist Theological Seminary in Kaduna, died in the dual […]
Attackers in India’s Most Violent State Follow Christians even to Hospitals
Victims threatened as they try to recover.
November 23, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians in India’s most religiously intolerant state have witnessed heightened violence in the past several weeks, including Hindu extremists attempting to slit the throat of a pastor as he lay hospitalized from a previous attack, sources said. Ruled by the Hindu extremist-backed Bharatiya Janata Party in a country […]
‘Blasphemy’ Case against Pakistani Girl Ruled a Fake
Judge decides firmly against ‘mockery of justice.
November 20, 2012 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – As of late Tuesday night in Pakistan there were no reports of Islamic extremist unrest following today’s dismissal of blasphemy charges against a Christian girl in Islamabad. Accusations of blasphemy in Pakistan commonly involve clamoring crowds of Islamists, but extremists appeared resigned that the case against Rimsha Masih […]
Nuba Civilians Bombed in Christian Areas of Sudan
Khartoum said to use South Kordofan unrest for ethnic, religious ‘cleansing.’
November 16, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government has stepped up bombing of its own non-Arab civilians in Christian areas of Sudan’s South Kordofan state the past month, killing a 1-year-old baby and wounding others, sources said. Since South Sudan split from Sudan in a referendum last year, ethnic Nuba peoples in Sudan’s […]
Pakistani Preacher Jailed for Sermon at Funeral
Muslims accuse him of ‘blasphemy,’ order relatives to leave village or be set ablaze.
November 9, 2012 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – An evangelist accused of defaming Islam was telling mourners at a funeral about the sacrifice of Christ when Muslims present took offence, his son said. Karma Patras, a 55-year-old resident of Chak 113-RB Bado Malhi of Punjab Province’s Nankana District, has been languishing in jail since Oct. 13 for […]
Secret Police Suspected in Attack on Church Pastor in China
Authorities restrict activities of Christian leader.
November 6, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – China’s secret police are suspected of involvement in an attack on a Beijing pastor last month. An unidentified man in a black SUV with covered license plates chased Liu Fenggang, a Beijing house church pastor who has served two prison terms for defending other Christians’ rights, and smashed […]
Pastor Killed in Church Blast in Garissa, Kenya
Several others injured in attack by suspected Islamic extremists.
November 4, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Chaplain Julius Mukonzi was killed and 11 others were injured today when suspected Islamic extremists cast a grenade or other explosive at a church in Garissa in eastern Kenya, sources said. At least three of the 11 injured had wounds so serious they were air-lifted to Kenyatta General Hospital […]