(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 […]
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 -
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 […]
Christians in Nepal Sentenced to Prison for Praying for Ill Woman Are Released
Church leaders believe they were set up.
September 22, 2017 By -
(Morning Star News) – Four Christians in Nepal sentenced to five years in prison on false charges of “witchcraft” and “violence” were released today after a high court annulled their convictions, church leaders said. Lali Pun, Bimkali Budha, Suk Lal Pariyar and Ganga Pariyar had been accused in Salyan District Court on May 19, […]
Christian Father of Two in Pakistan Sentenced to Death for ‘Blaspheming’ Prophet of Islam
Muslim accuser had personal conflict with him, attorney says.
September 18, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of two in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam’s prophet in a phone text even though he is illiterate, sources said. Nadeem James, 27, was charged in July 2016 in Gujrat District after a friend, Yasir Bashir, complained to police that he received a […]
Christian High School Student Killed in Pakistan
Muslim classmates apparently covering up religious motive.
September 8, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The father of a 17-year-old Christian who was killed in a school in Pakistan by at least one Muslim classmate said the attack was religiously motivated, a charge that police dispute. Ilyasab Masih told Morning Star News by phone from his home in Chak 461 village, Vehari District in Punjab […]
Al Shabaab Militants in Kenya Kill Four Christians
Somali Islamic extremists identify non-Muslims for slaughter.
September 7, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somali militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab killed four Christians in coastal Kenya on Wednesday (Sept. 6), a local source said. Shaken residents of Bobo village in Lamu County left their homes and slept in the cold of the wilds or in nearby Hindi after Al Shabaab members accompanied […]
Catholic Priest in Nigeria Kidnapped, Killed
No ransom demanded, no sign of robbery.
September 4, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Catholic priest who was kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria on Friday (Sept. 1), was found dead on Saturday, sources said. Gunmen dragged the Rev. Cyriacus Onunkwo, of the diocese of Orlu, Imo state, from his car in the town of Orlu, Imo state, and the next day police found his […]
Pastor in India Perseveres amid Persecution by Hindu Extremists
Assailants demand he renounce Christ for savage beating to end.
August 31, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!” “I remained mum,” pastor Harjot Singh Sethi, 26, told Morning Star News. “I […]
Mother in Uganda Beaten, Driven from Home for Embracing Christianity
Woman leaves Islam after daughter is healed.
August 30, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in eastern Uganda who put her faith in Christ is in hiding after her husband beat her for leaving Islam, sources said. Sophia Nakisaala, 35, turned to Christ on Aug. 7 after her daughter was healed when a street preacher she’d heard in Bulopa village, Kamuli District, prayed […]