JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Radical Muslims in Sudan took to the streets today to protest the transitional government’s adoption of amendments to decriminalize apostasy and repeal other Islamist laws. The apostasy law has been used for more than 30 years to persecute those who leave Islam. The government’s adoption this week of […]
Radical Muslims Protest Sudan’s Abolishment of Apostasy, other Islamist Laws
Limited demonstrations accompany call for ‘holy war’ against government.
July 17, 2020 By -
Fourth Christian in Less than Two Months Killed in India
Maoists recruited to shoot pastor to death, sources say.
July 13, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Maoists in Maharashtra state killed a church pastor on Friday (July 10), the fourth death of a Christian for their faith in India since late May, sources said. In Bhatpar village, Gadchiroli District in the western peninsular state, pastor Munshi Devu Tado was leading a worship service on his […]
Radical Muslims Beat 21-Year-Old Christian Woman Unconscious in Kenya
Family of Somali descent fled persecution in Nairobi last year.
July 9, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims in Isiolo, Kenya last month beat unconscious a 21-year-old Christian woman, a member of a family from Somalia that fled persecution in Nairobi in 2019, sources said. In the June 4 attack on Fozia (surname withheld), seven assailants also broke two teeth of her 19-year-old sister, Asha, […]
Christian Mother of Four in India Was Persecuted before Her Death
If homicide, it would be the third killing of a Christian in the country within a few weeks.
July 7, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal Hindus persecuted a widowed, Christian mother of four before her body was found severely mutilated in the wilderness near her village in Chhattisgarh, India, sources said. The body of 40-year-old Bajjo Bai Mandavi was initially unrecognizable as it appeared to have been eaten by wild animals when it […]
Christian Father of Two Killed in Jharkhand State, India
Tribal Adivasis opposed his conversion, raped his mother-in-law.
July 3, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When Kande Munda heard a knock on his door one night last month, the Christian father of two knew it was likely the same thugs and their colleagues in his area of Jharkhand, India who had harassed him for nearly four years. They were particularly upset that Munda had […]
New Law in Iran Threatens More Arrests of Christians, Rights Advocates Say
Legislation could enable regime to ban any group as a ‘sect.’
June 30, 2020 By -
(Morning Star News) – Legislation passed by parliament in Iran could make it easier to arrest and imprison Christians and other religious minorities, rights advocates said. Under amendments to articles 499 and 500 of the Islamic Penal Code, those found guilty of “deviant psychological manipulation” or “propaganda contrary to Islam,” whether in the “real or […]
Police Release Suspect in Attempted Killing of Pastor in India
Official from Hindu nationalist party pressures officers, sources say.
June 28, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Under pressure from an official in the ruling Hindu nationalist political party, police in Uttar Pradesh state, India have released without charges a suspect in the attempted killing of a pastor last month, sources said. “When we entered the police station for the identification process, the attacker was treated […]
Christians Attacked in Sudan after Incitement by Mosque Leaders in Khartoum
One South Sudanese dead, another in critical condition, sources say.
June 24, 2020 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Following calls from mosque leaders in east Khartoum, Sudan to rid their “Muslim area” of South Sudanese Christians, several Christians were attacked there and in neighboring Omdurman this month, sources said. At the end of evening prayers at a mosque in the Al-Jerif East area, on the eastern […]
Villagers Burn Home, Beat Wife of Former Muslim Sheikh in Eastern Uganda
Another Christian convert also loses his home in separate attack.
June 22, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former sheikh (Muslim teacher) in eastern Uganda who secretly became a Christian on Christmas Day decided to tell his two wives about his new faith last month. Marijan Olupot invited his pastor to his home in Obokora village, Obokorasub County, Kibuku District on the evening of May 14. […]
Hard-line Hindu Relatives Threaten to Kill Christian’s Children in Uttar Pradesh, India
Pastor beaten unconscious in separate attack.
June 19, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – His father away from home due in part to coronavirus travel restrictions, a 12-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh, India heard relatives angry at his family for refusing to renounce Christ pounding on the door late last night (June 18). “It was past 11’o clock in the night when we […]