MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Among 19 civilians an Islamic extremist group in the Philippines killed after storming a city on May 23 were eight Christians shot for refusing to recite the Muslim creed, government investigators told local press. They were the first Christians slain in the ongoing battle for Marawi City, capital of Lanao […]
Christians Shot to Death in Attack on Marawi, Philippines
Those refusing to recite Islamic creed are targeted.
June 1, 2017 By -
Islamic Extremists in Egypt Slaughter Coptic Christians on Pilgrimage to Monastery
Islamist gunmen open fire on bus full of youths.
May 26, 2017 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Heavily armed Islamists in Egypt ambushed a youth pilgrimage to a monastery this morning, shooting dozens of bus passengers to death and leaving more to succumb to their wounds on a desert road. The attack in Minya Province killed 30 people, following the recent death in a hospital of one […]
Terrorists Linked with Islamic State Abduct Priest in Attack in Mindanao, Philippines
Policeman beheaded, 13 other Catholics kidnapped.
May 24, 2017 By -
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – An ascendant terrorist group in the Philippines that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) yesterday wreaked violence on the island of Mindanao, kidnapping a catholic priest and 13 members of his parish. Soldiers engaged in firefights with the Maute Group (MG) in Marawi City as its militants reportedly […]
Christian Killed in Islamic Extremist Attack in Northeastern Kenya
Suspected Al Shabaab rebels shoot two people to death.
May 19, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militants are suspected in the killing of two people, at least one a Christian, in a May 12 gun attack in northeastern Kenya, sources said. Five suspected rebels from the Somali Islamic extremist group targeted non-Muslim quarry workers in El Wak, near the Somali border in Kenya’s North […]
Church Building, Pastor’s Home Burned Down in Tamil Nadu State, India, Sources Say
Young hard-line Hindu men threatened Christian leader, he says.
May 17, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus in southern India, upset that members of their caste-based group have become Christians, burned down a church building and the pastor’s home this month, sources said. After pastor John Muller and his pregnant wife left for a store on May 3, the assailants in Tamil Nadu state’s Attipattu […]
Muslim Extremists in Uganda Threaten to Kill Family of Pastor
Islamists seek revenge for pursuit of legal case against them.
May 12, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda who relocated after an Islamist attack has had to shift to yet another site, but he can only visit his family there briefly as his life is in danger, his wife said. Muslims continue to track pastor Christopher James Kalaja of […]
Pastor, Christian Activist Sentenced to Prison in Sudan Are Released
Presidential pardon frees two remaining Christians in false case.
May 11, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A pastor and another Christian serving a 12-year sentence in Sudan were freed today after they were granted a presidential pardon, sources said. The Rev. Hassan Abdelrahim Tawor had been in prison since his arrest in December 2015, as was Abdulmonem Abdumawla of Darfur. They were convicted on baseless […]
Christian in Pakistan Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for ‘Blasphemy’
Scanty evidence calls for acquittal, attorney says.
May 10, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to life in prison under the country’s blasphemy laws in spite of scanty evidence, an advocacy official said. Nasir Saeed said a trial court in Rawalpindi sentenced Zafar Bhatti to life imprisonment, even though conviction under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s blasphemy law […]
Pastor in India Loses Hearing from Assault by Hindu Extremists
Officials ignored his complaint of attack two months prior.
May 9, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern India’s Bihar state has lost his hearing after Hindu extremists assaulted him outside his home on church premises last month, sources said. Doctors at a Hajipur government hospital determined the loss of hearing and wounds on Pastor Sikandar Kumar’s body were a result of being beaten […]
Church Building Demolished, Two Christians Arrested in Sudan
One of at least 25 on government list of targeted houses of worship.
May 8, 2017 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Khartoum state authorities in Sudan demolished a church building yesterday (May 7) as Christians were preparing to worship, sources said. In the Khartoum suburb of Soba al Aradi, which began as a refugee camp for south Sudanese, a bulldozer sent by Jebel Aulia locality and the Ministry of Planning […]