HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Before Hindu extremists attacking a church in southern India this month repeatedly kicked a pastor’s wife in the face, rendering her unconscious, they tried to snatch her Bible from her. Persia Jacob, 38, clasped the Bible close to her heart as they tried to seize it. “I will die, but […]
Ferocity of Hindu Extremist Attacks Stuns Christians in Tamil Nadu, India
Assailants try to humiliate church members into becoming Hindus.
March 21, 2018 By -
Christians Wounded in Muslim Attack on Church Service in Pakistan
Assailants beat worshippers with bricks, open fire on them.
March 20, 2018 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the church pastor told Morning Star News. Pastor Haleem Feroze Masih of the King Jesus Church in Burewala, 155 miles (251 kilometers) southwest of […]
Christian Widow, Bereaved Father Show Reality behind Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
Mother of nine loses husband to killers.
March 19, 2018 By -
MIANGO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before. “These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this area for some time now by these armed herdsmen, and we don’t know precisely why […]
Christian Woman in Hiding after Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Husband in Nigeria
Predominantly Christian village abandoned.
March 17, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A young Christian mother of three has been in hiding for more than four months since Muslim Fulani herdsmen threatened her ter lling her husband, she said. Soon after the herdsmen killed her husband in an attack on Zanwra village, near Jos in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, 25-year-old Lami Bulus […]
Pastor’s Family Assaulted in Southern India
Police come under pressure to file counter charge against Christians.
March 14, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – On a recent Monday at noon in southern India, a pastor’s family in Telangana state noticed motorcycles parked outside their church gate and a gang of young men loudly reading the church banner. The banner of the church in Ramachandrapuram village, Karimngar District, included 2 Cor. 12:9, “My grace is sufficient […]
Sentencing of Pastor Adds to Uptick in Persecution in Algeria
Rights advocates fear coordinated campaign against Christianity.
March 12, 2018 By -
(Morning Star News) – In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a suspended prison sentence under a law that prohibits causing Muslims to doubt their religion, sources said. In Frenda, Tiaret Province, pastor Nordine B. was ordered to […]
Hindu Extremists in Eastern India Attack Christians Coming Off Bus
Two Christians hospitalized.
March 7, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians on their way to a recent Christian camp in eastern India shared the purpose of their trip with fellow bus passengers, not realizing one of them was a Hindu extremist. He began to argue about conversion with the Christians, mostly women and children, including a native missionary from a […]
As More Christians Are Killed in Somalia, Number of Orphans Grows
Impoverished secret church unable to meet all their needs.
March 6, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist, Al Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care center for the orphans three years ago in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as more children of secret Christians were […]
Christians Seriously Injured after Attempted Burial in Eastern India
Mob wounds 13-year-old girl, threatens to burn mother.
March 5, 2018 By -
DELHI, March 5, 2018 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists upset that Christians tried to bury one of their dead in a village in eastern India seriously injured a 13-year-old girl and others who tried to protect a Christian woman the villagers threatened to burn alive. On Feb. 26 Christians in Chitrangapalli, Tamguda village, were […]
Pastor, Other Christians Slain in Herdsmen Revenge Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
Muslim Fulanis appear to use outside arms, mercenaries.
March 2, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday (Feb. 27) killed a pastor and 19 other Christians in apparent retaliation for attacks by ethnic Bachama militia on Fulani families, sources said. The Rev. Haruna Enoch was killed along with the others in herdsmen attacks on four predominantly Christian areas in […]