YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Artillery and air strikes by Burma (Myanmar) government forces on rebel bases in Kachin state in the past week displaced hundreds of ethnic Kachin, a predominantly Christian people long targeted in part because they are not Buddhist. The Rev. Lama Yaw of the Kachin Baptist Convention, who visited areas near […]
Burma (Myanmar) Military Offensive Displaces Kachin Christians
In spite of elections and reforms, no end in sight for conflict with ethnic minorities.
November 22, 2015 By -
Young Woman in Uganda Beaten, Disowned for Putting Faith in Christ
Father persuaded not to kill her.
November 15, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The father of a young Muslim woman in east Uganda on Thursday (Nov. 12) tried to beat her to death after she became a Christian, but community leaders intervened and limited him to disowning her, sources said. Kibida Muyemba learned that his 21-year-old daughter, Namusisi Birye, had put her faith […]
Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused of Raping Two Christian Girls
Prosecution absent, key witness bribed, sources say.
October 31, 2015 By -
LONDON (Morning Star News) – Two Muslim men who raped two Christian sisters in Pakistan last year have been acquitted after Islamists pressured a key witness not to testify and a prosecutor failed to show up in court, family and legal sources said. The two teenaged girls (names withheld) had gone to a toilet in a […]
Church Building Burned Down in Eastern Sudan
Radical Muslims suspected.
October 28, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – On top of recent government demolitions of church buildings, suspected Muslim extremists in Sudan’s eastern city of Al Qadarif this month set fire to one used by a 500-member congregation, sources said. Leaders from the Lutheran Church of Sudan said they suspect a radical Muslim set the blaze that […]
Police Set Up Christian in Pakistan with False Blasphemy Charge, Sources Say
In separate incident, Muslim teachers assault Christian headmaster.
October 22, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police have filed a false blasphemy charge against a Christian in Sargodha after he refused their requests for money, a relative said. In a separate incident also in Punjab Province, Muslim high school teachers assaulted a Christian headmaster because he had been promoted over them and refused to comply with […]
Evangelist in Eastern Uganda Killed after Muslim-Christian Debate
Islamists had threatened church lay leader.
October 15, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamists upset by a Christian-Muslim debate are suspected in the killing of a long-time evangelist in eastern Uganda who led many Muslims to Christ, sources said. The mutilated body of Samson Nfunyeku was found close to his home in Kalampete village, Kibuku District early on Sept. 23, after the latest […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious in Madhya Pradesh, India
Hindu extremists continue to use ‘anti-conversion’ law to jail victims of attacks.
October 5, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Madhya Pradesh state is recovering after Hindu extremists last month beat him unconscious and left him in a pool of blood, sources said. About 20 Hindu extremists in Fattiguda, Jhabua on Sept. 10 kicked, punched and beat with a club pastor Ajmer Singh Damor of Shalom Church, […]
U.S.-Iranian Pastor Abedini’s Ordeal in Iran Tests, Builds Faith of Wife, Children
Addressing president of Iran or her kids, Naghmeh Abedini chooses words carefully.
September 29, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday declined to meet with the wife of imprisoned U.S.-Iranian- pastor Saeed Abedini during his trip to the United Nations, days after the Christian’s wife learned he had recently been tortured. Rouhani instead said in a television interview that releasing Iranian criminals held in U.S. prisons […]
Aid Worker Assassinated in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Islamic State claims responsibility for killing.
September 29, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – The Islamic State (IS) has taken responsibility for gunning down the Italian program manager of a Christian-backed aid group on Monday (Sept. 28) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An online statement claiming to be from the Islamic extremist IS said a “security detachment” from the terrorist organization had followed Cesare Tavella of the […]
Three Church Buildings Torched in Tanzania
Frightened congregations without places to worship.
September 26, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three church buildings were set ablaze on Tuesday (Sept. 22) in an area of northwestern Tanzania where Muslim extremists have issued threats, pastors said. A pastor of one of the three churches whose buildings were gutted, Vedasto Athanas of Living Water International church, said area Christians are worried and frightened […]