NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A judge failed to show up at a hearing for a pastor facing accusations of child abuse in a case in Zanzibar that Muslims have kept alive after charges were twice dismissed, sources said. Shortly after charges were filed on the semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania in November […]
Five Church Leaders in Sudan Arrested after Refusing to Cancel Worship Service
Government harasses, questions more pastors in effort to take over denomination.
October 23, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – In an ongoing bid by the government of Sudan to take over leadership of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), police on Sunday (Oct. 22) arrested five SCOC church leaders after they refused to comply with an order to refrain from worship, sources told Morning Star News. Police officers […]
Port Authorities in Sudan Detain Bible Shipment without Explanation
Container held for more than two years.
October 20, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan have detained a container of Bibles in Port Sudan without explanation for at least two years, a source said. A Bible Society in Sudan representative told Morning Star News the container was one of two containing Arabic Bibles detained more than two years ago. The other […]
Christian Teenager in India Arrested for Comments on Fake Facebook, Sources Say
First-year university student charged with posting anti-Hindu comments.
October 16, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian teenager in northern India was jailed for 12 days after anti-Hindu comments appeared on a fake Facebook account in his name, sources said. Sandeep Kumar, 18, christened Karan Anthony, was released on bail 12 days after being arrested on Aug. 23 and charged with posting anti-Hindu comments on […]
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Killed outside Cairo, Egypt
Like many accused Muslims, suspect is said to be mentally ill.
October 13, 2017 By -
CAIRO (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Orthodox bishop from Upper Egypt was slain outside Cairo, Egypt yesterday. The assailant struck Bishop Samaan Shehata in the head, neck and torso with a machete in the El Salam area near El Marg District on the outskirts of Cairo, according to local reports. Shehata was born in 1972. […]
Police in Pakistan Beat Christian Boy to Death, Father Says
Muslim classmate tried bullying 14-year-old into renouncing his faith, he says.
October 11, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan beat a 14-year-old Christian boy to death on Monday (Oct. 9) because he had gotten into a fight with a Muslim classmate who tried to bully him into renouncing his faith, sources said. Mushtaq Masih, father of Arsalan Masih, said that his son was a student at […]
Muslim Father in Uganda Drives Son from Home for Becoming Christian
Young man cannot deny faith he tried to keep secret.
October 10, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The young man did not answer after his father asked him if he had ditched Islam to become a Christian. Magale (also called Mabala) Hamidu, 20, of Nanoko village in eastern Uganda, had become a Christian seven months before. He had been failing to attend mosque prayers, and his father […]
Authorities in China Detain Pastor, Daughter and 3-year-old Grandson
In neighboring province, government-hired thug threatens to kill family.
October 5, 2017 By -
(Morning Star News) – While a government-hired thug in China threatened to kill a Christian family, officials in a neighboring province arrested a pastor, her daughter and her 3-year-old grandson, sources said. In Xinning, Hubei Province in the central part of the country, police and religious affairs officials upset by a house church’s outreach arrested […]
Sudan Detains, Interrogates Elder in Campaign to Take over Church
Authorities continue bid to rid country of Christianity.
September 26, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A month after seven church leaders were arrested, interrogated and released on bail, police in Sudan detained and questioned another church leader in Omdurman on Friday (Sept. 22), sources said. Elder Mahjoub Abotrin of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) was arrested from his home in Omdurman, across the […]
Fulani Fugitive from Islam in Nigeria Endures Persecution as a ‘Lifestyle’
Dramatic conversion, effective evangelism come at high cost.
September 22, 2017 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Before Boko Haram began growing into a prominent terrorist force in northeast Nigeria in 2009, its members were trying to kill a highly effective evangelist to ethnic Fulani Muslims. One Boko Haram member pretended to be a Christian in order to kill Habibu Adam Mohammed, 49, an Islamic teacher who had […]