HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Six Christians facing false charges, two of them beaten by police, were jailed for a month for praying for a sick woman in eastern India, they said. After tribal Gondi villagers in Simdega District, Jharkhand state, attacked the Christians on Sept. 16, officers at the local police station refused to listen […]
Christians in India Praise God in Spite of Police Brutality, Month in Jail
Officers beat, falsely charge victims of another Hindu extremist attack, Christians say.
November 24, 2017 By -
Accuser of Five Church Leaders in Sudan Fails to Appear for Court Hearing – Again
SCOC pastors arrested for refusing to stop worship service.
November 22, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The police officer who accused five church leaders of refusing an order to stop worship services in Sudan again failed to show up at a hearing on Tuesday (Nov. 21), casting further doubt on the legitimacy of the charges, sources said. The officer who arrested the Sudanese Church […]
Five Christians Killed, Five Others Missing in Muslim Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
Report highlights role of jihad in Benue state violence.
November 17, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Five Christians were killed and five others are missing after attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue states in the past two weeks. Two members of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) were killed on Sunday (Nov. 12) in Plateau state’s Wereng village, Riyom Local Government […]
Muslim Posing as Christian Teacher at School in Uganda Attacks Director, Sources Say
Students afraid to return to class.
November 16, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Students at a Christian elementary school in eastern Uganda fear for their lives after a Muslim posing as a Christian teacher attacked the school director, sources said. Some of the children at Hope of Glory International Nursery and Primary School have been afraid to return to class after Mugooda Siraji […]
Christians Charged with Serious Crimes after Hindu Extremists, Police Detain Children in India
Christians were making routine, annual train trip to Bible conference.
November 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later savagely beat Christian parents trying to regain custody of their children at a police station, the […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Ambush, Kill Nine Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
Three others injured, sources say.
November 10, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nine Christians were buried in north-central Nigeria yesterday after Muslim Fulani herdsmen ambushed and killed them earlier this week, sources said. The victims, all members of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN), were buried after a funeral service in Plateau state’s Riyom Local Government Area. They were killed, and […]
Decade after Church Burnings in Nigeria, Officials Forbid Rebuilding
Muslims continue hostile environment for Christians.
November 8, 2017 By -
KANO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A decade after Muslims attacked and displaced Christians in a town in northern Nigeria, Kano state officials have forbidden church buildings to be rebuilt there, sources said. Eight church buildings destroyed in late September 2007 in predominantly Muslim Tudun Wada Dankadai, Kano state, are still in ruins, a Morning Star […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after ‘Miraculous’ Conversions
Assailants were masked, but they had threatened him before, he says.
November 5, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him […]
Officials, Police in Tamil Nadu State, India Halt Worship in 10 Churches
Hindu extremists compel authorities to act.
November 1, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in Coimbatore District to stop worship unless they obtain permission from the collector’s office, and the extremists intend to […]
Christian Woman, Son and Daughter Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
In country’s southwest, priest slain after being kidnapped.
October 30, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman and her two children were killed in north-central Nigeria last week, three days after a kidnapped priest was slain by his abductors in the southwestern part of the country, sources said. Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Oct. 24) ambushed and shot to death Rebecca Daniel Choji, […]