NAYPYIDAW, Burma (Morning Star News) – Burmese army jet fighters killed 21 civilians from the predominantly Christian, ethnic Chin group in airstrikes this month in western Burma (Myanmar), sources said. In Paletwa Township, Chin state, the army on March 14 struck Meiksa Wa villages 2 and 3, killing 12 civilians, area residents reportedly said. Eight […]
Civilian Christians Killed amid Military Fighting in Western Burma
Unknown whether caught in crossfire or deliberately targeted.
March 25, 2020 By -
Christians Suffer Police Brutality, Illegal Arrests in Uttar Pradesh, India
Church members forced to pose like Christ on the cross during beating.
March 22, 2020 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Forcing them to pose like Christ on the cross, police last week beat Christians in custody on baseless charges in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, sources said. On March 15 a church of 200 people was immersed in a Sunday service when 30 Hindu extremists brandishing hockey sticks and […]
Fearing for Children’s Lives, Christian Family in India Refrains from Reporting Assault to Police
Expelled and homeless in jungle, 9-year-old girl is attacked and threatened.
March 16, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in central India drove a Christian family into the jungle last week, with one later intercepting their 9-year-old girl and threatening to kill her if she went to school again, her father said. On Wednesday (March 11), two days after an attack expelling the Christians from Bilood […]
Sudan Orders Removal of Church Committees Appointed by Bashir Regime
Move lauded as first step to returning churches to their leaders.
March 12, 2020 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan’s religious affairs ministry on Wednesday (March 11) abolished committees imposed on churches under former President Omar al-Bashir, a move expected to return oversight of churches to their rightful leaders, sources said. “All government-appointed committees are abolished as of today [Wednesday, March 11, 2020],” the order signed by […]
Christian Rohingya Refugees Attacked, Kidnapped in Bangladesh
Pastor and daughter abducted, makeshift church building destroyed.
March 11, 2020 By -
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – A rights group has confirmed reports that suspected Muslim, ethnic Rohingya beat and kidnapped Rohingya Christians on Jan. 26-27 in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. At least 12 Rohingya Christians were hospitalized with injuries from an attack in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar District on the evening of […]
Former Muslim from Sudan Forced into Hiding
Father of seven says he was miraculously healed.
March 10, 2020 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – It was more than a year ago that Muslims in the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan noticed that Ahmed Alnour was no longer reciting his Islamic prayers five times a day. The tribesman of the ethnic Misseriya Arabs was helping support his wife and seven children […]
Christian Leader in Madhya Pradesh, India Run Over by Motorcycles, Sources Say
Church elder attacked after dropping his son off at school.
March 8, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Violence against Christians in India hit a new level on March 4 when Hindu extremists ran their motorcycles over a key evangelical leader after beating him, sources said. Armed with bamboo rods and a thick metal chain with a heavy lock on it, the 10 Hindu nationalists in Sehore, […]
Sudan to Consider Christian Holidays in Setting Student Exam Schedules, Official Says
Church leaders seek action.
March 6, 2020 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Christian leaders in Sudan were skeptical about a government statement this week that it will consider removing Sundays as a student exam day. Disregarding Sunday as a worship day for Christians, Sudan even before the 30-year Islamist regime of former President Omar al-Bashir had scheduled exams for both […]
Families of Three Christian Schoolteachers Killed in Kenya Receive Aid
Al Shabaab attack in Garissa County targeted non-Muslims.
March 5, 2020 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The families of three Christian schoolteachers killed by Islamic extremists in northeastern Kenya have suffered loss beyond words, but aid from donors in Ireland is helping to compensate for lost income, they said. Somalia-based Al Shabaab militants on Jan. 13 killed Titus Sasaka, a member of the New Testament […]
Tribal Villagers in India Beat Christian Family, Destroy Food Supply
Evangelist with injured relatives in hospital, afraid to go home.
March 2, 2020 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Not finding the Christian evangelist they planned to attack at home, worshippers of village deities in central-eastern India beat his mother, wife and 11-month-old son and destroyed a year’s food supply, sources said. Podiya Tati’s mother, Jimmey Tati, has been in a hospital bed in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh state […]