Church in Indonesia Spurns Relocation Decree

GKI Yasmin congregation says federal dictate impairs rule of law.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A church in Bogor, West Java is snubbing a ministerial decree that, because of Islamic opposition, it must relocate. The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) in the Yasmin Park area of Bogor, 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Jakarta, is demanding that the national and local governments comply with a Supreme […]

Pakistani Imam Charged in Christian Girl’s Case Wins Bail

Cleric accused of producing false evidence against Rimsha Masih, who is charged with ‘blasphemy.’

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Muslim cleric charged with fabricating evidence to make it appear that a Christian girl desecrated the Koran – thus incurring charges of desecrating the Koran himself – has been granted bail.   While Christians accused of blaspheming Islam in Pakistan routinely spend years languishing in jails, Islamabad Session Judge […]

Sudanese Military Kills Christian Mother in Bombing

Non-Arab Nuba Christians targeted in town in South Kordofan.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Government bombing of ethnic Nuba civilians in a predominantly Christian town of Sudan last month – killing a mother of seven children – is further evidence that officials are trying to rid the country of Christians, area Christian leaders said. Sudanese government forces bombarded Heiban in war-torn South Kordofan […]

Christians Targeted in Nigeria’s University Killings, Students Say

Carnage follows authorities’ raid on area Islamic extremists of Boko Haram

YOLA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The gunmen who killed at least 46 people in Nigeria’s northwestern town of Mubi on Monday (Oct. 1) first asked them if they were Christians before shooting or knifing them, according to students who escaped the carnage. Two students from the off-campus housing site in the Mubi suburb of Wuro […]

Christians in Egypt’s Sinai Fearful after Attack

Coptic families flee Rafah following threats, machine-gun fire.

JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – Egyptian Christians in North Sinai feel unprotected and in danger following threats and a machine-gun attack that has driven several families from the border town of Rafah. “The situation of Christians in Sinai is very dangerous,” said Yusuf Zaki, spokesman for the Egypt Coptic Alliance. “They feel that they are not […]

Violence against Christians Persists in Nigeria

Children, elderly among those killed in Bauchi state.

  BAUCHI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – September proved a bloody month in Nigeria as Christians continued to come under attack from Islamic extremists.   A suicide bomber believed to belong to the Islamic extremist Boko Haram sect on Sept. 23 detonated explosives in a car he was driving in the parking lot of St. John’s […]

One Child Dead, Others Injured in Church Blast in Kenya

Sympathizers of Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels suspected.

  NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 9-year-old boy was killed and several others were seriously injured after a suspected grenade attack on a church here this morning, sources said. A source who visited the site told Morning Star News by phone that the children were attending a Sunday school class at 10:30 a.m. when […]