MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Following the killing of a pastor on the Island of Mindanao on Friday, church leaders in the Philippines decried an alleged increase in attacks on Christian human rights defenders since the start of the Rodrigo Duterte administration in 2016. Pastor Ernesto Javier Estrella of the United Church of Christ in […]
Christians in the Philippines Decry Growing Hostilities after Killing of Pastor
Churches upset with government tactics.
August 6, 2019 By -
Public Awareness, Pressure Help Persecuted Christians Win Justice in India
Christian victims arrested again, but outcry saves them.
August 2, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attorney representing Christians threatened at a wedding in northern India – with police joining in the verbal abuse and then arresting the Christians – couldn’t believe what was now happening to him. Attorney Harjinder Singh had gone to the workplace of the Sikh leader who organized the disruption of […]
Reporting Persecution to Police a Vanishing Option for Christians in India
Hindu extremists beat, deprive them of basic services in Bihar state.
July 30, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians in Bihar state, India, has so intensified in the past two years that Pastor Shelton Viswanathan didn’t dare call police after Hindu extremists broke bones in his hand and foot. “If I force the police to register cases against the assailants, the [Hindu extremist] Bajrang Dal’s top […]
China Adds Charge against Pastor, Coerces Christians to Accuse Him Falsely, Sources Say
Church leader in another province takes his life in protest of crack-down.
July 24, 2019 By -
(Morning Star News) – Authorities in China have added “illegal business activities” to the subversion charge against pastor Wang Yi and have coerced congregation members to falsely accuse him, according to advocacy and media reports. Pastor Wang, of Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was detained in a Dec. 9 raid along […]
Officials in Cuba Forbid Church Leaders to Attend Religious Freedom Event
Christian religious rights journalist detained.
July 16, 2019 By -
MEXICO CITY (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Cuba on Sunday (July 14) refused to allow the national presidents of two Christian denominations to board their flight to Washington, D.C., to attend a religious freedom event, sources said. The Rev. Moises de Prada Esquivel and the Rev. Alida Leon Baez, both members of the Alliance of […]
Christians Forced to ‘Reconvert,’ Banished from Village in India
Police decline to act, sources say.
July 13, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month and forced to bow to a goddess idol, sources said. The mob action on June 14 followed an announcement two days earlier by the heads of Mahuatoli village, Gumla District […]
7-Year-Old in Nigeria: How Herdsmen Shot Me and Killed My Uncle
Attack also wounded another Christian.
June 28, 2019 By -
AKWANGA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As a Baptist church member tried to fight off an armed Muslim Fulani herdsman in a village in north-central Nigeria, he told his 7-year-old nephew and other relatives to run. The boy remained, crying and calling for help. Jerome, whose real name is withheld for security reasons, recalled how gunshots […]
Three Children among 13 Christians Killed in Attacks in Two States in Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kidnap woman.
June 20, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday (June 17) killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria’s Kaduna state, including three children, on the same day nine other Christians were slain in neighboring Plateau state, area sources said. Christian residents in Kaduna state’s Kauru County told Morning Star News that between 3 a.m and […]
Three Christians Forced to Convert to Buddhism in Rakhine State, Burma
Local officials take ethnic Chins to Buddhist monastery.
June 19, 2019 By -
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Local authorities in western Burma (Myanmar) last month forced three Christians to convert to Buddhism, area sources said. In Ann Township in southern Rakhine state, five local officials led by U Tin Shwe Maung took two ethnic Chin Christians from their homes in Padi Kyin village to a monastery on […]
Coptic Christian Arrested for Allegedly Insulting Islam on Facebook in Egypt
Muslim extremists ransack his parents’ home.
June 18, 2019 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A young Coptic Christian man has been arrested near Cairo, Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam after a hacker posted material on his Facebook page, he and family members said. Fady Yousef, 25, was arrested early in the morning of June 11 in Giza, southwest of Cairo, despite having posted a […]