HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Immanuel Tirkey and about 100 villagers were watching the end of a Christian film in Bihar state, India, when a man stood up in front of the screen and began shouting, “Who is the operator here? Who is the operator here?” Tirkey, one of five Christians who had organized […]
Hindu Extremists Demand Death of One of Organizers of Christian Film in India
Mob says one should be killed to ‘teach them a lesson.’
September 6, 2019 By -
Kidnapped Baptist Pastor in Nigeria Freed after 17 Days of Torture
Family, Christian leaders raise ransom money.
September 4, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Baptist pastor kidnapped and tortured last month in Nigeria was released over the weekend after his family and Christian leaders paid a ransom, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna state who abducted the Rev. Elisha Noma on Aug. 14 received 3 million naira (US$8,181) before freeing him on […]
Widowed Mother of Seven Homeless when Muslim In-Laws Learn She Is Christian
8-year-old son innocently tells relatives about church.
September 4, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The 8-year-old boy didn’t realize that telling his Muslim relatives how much he enjoyed a church choir would cause them to attack his family. The seventh and youngest child of 54-year-old Lezia Nakayiza, widowed since September 2018, he didn’t know that his family was keeping their faith secret in […]
After Christians in Algeria Prevented Church Closure, Authorities Seal It Shut
Officials threaten to imprison property owners of two churches.
September 3, 2019 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – After Christians fended off an attempt to close a church building in Algeria on Aug. 26, gendarmes arrived early Monday morning (Sept. 2) and sealed it shut, sources said. Church leaders and their attorney had asserted that the order from the head of Bejaia Province to close the church in […]
Nigeria Says Leah Sharibu Is Alive; Herdsmen Attacks Continue
Negotiations continue for her release, official says.
September 1, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – More than a month after an aid worker indicated in a video that kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu had been killed, a government official in Nigeria on Saturday (Aug. 31) said she was alive. Citing intelligence from security agencies, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu released a statement reaffirming that the government […]
Killings, Kidnapping Target Christian Leaders in Mexico
Drug cartels suspected in killing of one pastor, abduction of another.
August 30, 2019 By -
MIAMI (Morning Star News) – A Roman Catholic priest and an evangelical pastor in Mexico were killed this month, and another pastor was kidnapped, according to published reports. The Rev. José Martín Guzmán Vega was killed on Aug. 22 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, in northeast Mexico, according to the Catholic Multimedia Center (CCM). The priest of […]
Second Wrongly Convicted Christian Released in Kandhamal, India Case Counts Cost
Fight continues for five others falsely accused.
August 29, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Bijaya Kumar Sanaseth went to jail for a murder in India that he did not commit more than 10 and a half years ago, his mother was still alive and his oldest child was 9 years old. “I have not seen my children grow,” Sanaseth, the second Christian to […]
Church in Algeria Fends Off Authorities’ Attempt to Close It
Gendarmerie show up at worship site; Christians refuse to leave.
August 27, 2019 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A brigade of gendarmerie showed up at an evangelical worship site in Algeria on Monday (Aug. 26) to execute the latest of several church closure orders from provincial authorities, but Christian leaders thwarted the attempt. When Akbou gendarmerie parked their vehicles at 9:30 a.m. at the church courtyard in Ighzer […]
One Pastor Killed, Another Kidnapped in Separate Attacks in North-Central Nigeria
More than 500 Christians kidnapped in four years in Kaduna state, Christian leader says.
August 26, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a Pentecostal pastor and abducted a Baptist pastor in a spate of kidnappings this month in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. “The herdsmen, about 20 of them, shot into our house and broke the doors of the house,” said Emmanuel Noma, who along with his father, […]
Christian Mother in Somalia Divorced, Beaten
Muslim husband discovers her Bible.
August 16, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she reveal who had given it to her. “I told my husband that I found the Bible in Nairobi and wanted to read it,” the secret Christian […]