HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Summoned to a police station after Hindu extremists stopped his church’s worship last month, a pastor in northern India brought some 50 Christians with him to help plead for his rights. But 45-year-old pastor David Amarnath of Pathakpur village in Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh state, was taken aback by what […]
Police, Hindu Extremists Halt Christmas Celebrations in Uttar Pradesh, India
Militant Hindu nationalists feel free to attack under BJP government.
January 8, 2018 By -
Christian Widow in Uganda Poisoned on Christmas Day
Muslim neighbor confesses.
January 4, 2018 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother of five in eastern Uganda was pleasantly surprised when two Muslim neighbors visited her on Christmas morning with gifts of sugar, salt, soap, matchboxes, groundnuts and cooking oil. Nafamba Bongo Madina, whose children range in age from 5 to 14, thanked Taaka Hajira and the other Muslim neighbor […]
Mother, Daughter in Nigeria Pressured to Convert to Islam, Accused of Kidnapping
Children threatened, forcefully taken from Christian.
January 2, 2018 By -
KANO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her adult daughter face kidnapping charges filed to pressure them into following the family patriarch’s conversion to Islam, sources said. Amina Isa, 40, of Kano state’s Gidan Kuran village in Tudun Wada Local Government Area, told Morning Star News that her husband left Christianity to obtain […]
At Least Nine People Killed in Attack on Coptic Church in Egypt
Congregation leaving worship service as gunman fired.
December 29, 2017 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – At least nine people were shot to death and several others wounded after gunmen attacked parishioners leaving a worship service this morning in a town south of Cairo, according to the Egyptian Interior Ministry. Eight of those killed were Christians, officials said. Some of those wounded were in critical condition […]
Christians in India Strive to Overcome Typical Entrapment Scheme
Hindu extremists increasingly trying to frame pastors.
December 26, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – After being framed on false charges earlier this year, two Christians in eastern India recently spent a month in jail, where inmates beat them after discovering they were accused of defiling Hinduism, sources said. Months after two Hindu extremists in Bihar state tried – and failed – to trap pastor […]
Hindu Extremists Block, Disrupt Large-Scale Prayer Service in India
In neighboring state, Christmas carolers arrested.
December 22, 2017 By -
DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in Chhattisgarh state this month kept hundreds of Christians from a prayer service and attacked those who managed to attend, and in neighboring Madhya Pradesh a frivolous accusation led to the arrest of Christmas carol singers, sources said. At a prayer service where 2,000 people were expected in Tarra […]
Police Complicit in Hindu Extremist Attack on Christians in Tamil Nadu, India, Sources Say
Hindu nationalist group denies working with police to stop Christianity.
December 19, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Police arrested Christians who were attacked by Hindu nationalists in Tamil Nadu state, India, then tried to portray the incident as a fight between two parties, sources said. The Hindu extremists savagely beat four Christians, including a woman whose hand they fractured, for conducting a pre-Christmas charity event for destitute […]
Muslim Fulani Kidnappers Ravage Village in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Killings, abductions terrorize families, close churches.
December 18, 2017 By -
KADUNA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The latest in a series of Muslim Fulani attacks on a village in northern Nigeria has killed a Christian’s two adult sons, closed churches and sent residents fleeing the area. “We pray God will convict our attackers and make them to repent from these evil acts against us,” Madami Agiya, […]
Suicide Attack on Church in Pakistan Darkens Christmas Celebrations
At least nine killed, more than 50 wounded, sources say.
December 17, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Terror struck Christians in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province today as four terrorists allegedly linked with the Islamic State (IS) attacked a church, killing at least nine worshippers and injuring more than 50 others. Police and church officials told Morning Star News that four suicide attackers stormed the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church […]
Christians Beaten, Falsely Charged and Jailed in Mob Attack in India, Sources Say
Come, let us burn them alive,’ Hindu extremists shout.
December 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Seven Christians in India have been booked on charges of hurting religious feelings after Hindu extremists savagely beat them when they gathered to pray for a sick man at his home, sources said. Police in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh state on Dec. 4 charged the six Christian men and one woman […]