MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – A grenade attack near a Catholic cathedral and radio station in the southern Philippines on Sunday (Dec. 22) could have been aimed at a military advance team for a presidential visit as much as the Christian sites, according to local reports. The grenade explosion injured at least eight soldiers […]
Grenade Attack Near Cathedral Leaves Several Wounded in the Philippines
Assailants, motives remain uncertain.
December 26, 2019 By -
Christian Mother in Uganda Loses Marriage for Turning to Christ
Elsewhere, family is homeless after young father and wife leave Islam.
December 23, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – When Florence Namuyiga’s Muslim husband asked her why their 7-year-old son was singing Christian songs, she remained silent. Namuyiga, a 27-year-old mother of three in central Uganda’s Lwebitati village, Kitumbi Parish in Mubende District, had been secretly attending church services with her 2- and 5-year-old sons since putting her […]
Rebels in Burma Who Closed More than 100 Churches Allow 51 to Reopen
Congregations investigated as ‘extremists.’
December 20, 2019 By -
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Ethnic rebels who closed more than 100 churches in eastern Burma (Myanmar) in 2018 have allowed 51 Baptist churches to reopen, sources said. Ethnic Wa rebels of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) this week announced they had permitted 51 Baptist churches to reopen in northern Shan state after […]
Axe-Wielding, Tribal Animists Set Bibles, Church Building Ablaze in Eastern India
Pastor and wife taken hostage for more than four hours.
December 18, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists in eastern India earlier this month surrounded a church building with axes, threatened to kill Christians within and later burned down the thatched-roof structure, sources said. Hard-line animists in Odisha state’s Perigaon village, Rayagada District, attacked on Dec. 1 after having raided Christians homes to seize and […]
Christians Slain in Suspected Al Shabaab Attack in Northern Kenya
Assailants separated out those who were not local ethnic Somali Muslims.
December 9, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected members of Somali Islamic extremist group Al Shabaab intercepted a bus in northern Kenya on Friday (Dec. 6), separated out those who were not local ethnic Somali Muslims and executed them, sources said. The Medina Bus Co. vehicle en route from Nairobi to Mandera had 56 people aboard […]
Animists Opposing Christianity in India Find Allies in Maoists, Police, Hindu Extremists
Christians in tribal areas face persecution on many fronts.
December 4, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – In an area of central India where tribal animists enlist Maoist militants to kill Christians who refuse to recant, Sodi Joga took it seriously when relatives threatened to kill him, his wife and 5-year-old daughter. “The villagers demanded that Joga and his family must partake in the cleansing ritual, […]
Fear of Hindu Extremist Violence Ends Christianity in Village in Northern India
Boy, 10, not spared in assault in Uttarakhand state.
December 2, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The gruesome beating of a pastor’s family in northern India last month showed why a woman who was once Christian returned to Hinduism – and joined the mob attacking them. “I was among the crowd abusing and accusing the Christian family,” the 30-year-old mother, whose name is withheld for security […]
Falsely Accused of Killing Hindu Leader in India, Five Christians Ordered To Be Freed
The fight for their acquittal remains.
November 29, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After spending 11 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit, five Christians in eastern India were finally ordered to be freed on Tuesday (Nov. 26), sources said. The Supreme Court of India issued a decision granting bail to the five Christians from Odisha (formerly Orissa) state […]
Four Christian Farmers Killed by Muslim Fulani Herdsmen in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sources Say
In Adamawa state, kidnapped university chaplain released.
November 25, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Nov. 14 killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria, attacking them with machetes as they slept in their beds, area residents said. The four members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Agban village, near Kagoro in Kaduna state’s Kaura County, were farmers who were killed in the […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious Faces Charges by Hindu Extremists in Jharkhand, India
Family is attacked with axe, rods.
November 22, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor and his family in eastern India are facing police charges after Hindu extremists with an axe, bamboo rods and wooden sticks attacked them in their home, leaving the pastor for dead, sources said. The eight assailants, including a policeman, who attacked pastor Basant Kumar Paul as he […]