COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – A civil court in Cuba sentenced the pastor of a house church to a year of house arrest on Saturday (Oct. 22) for loud worship services, sources said. Juan Carlos Nuñez received the hastily delivered sentence in Cuba’s eastern city of Las Tunas, where he leads a house church of […]
Pastor in Cuba Sentenced to House Arrest for One Year
Penalty for high-volume worship services excessive, house church leader says.
October 27, 2016 By -
Islamic Extremists Kill 12 More People in Mandera, Kenya
Christians targeted in bomb-and-gun assault.
October 25, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists targeted Christians in the shooting deaths of 12 non-local Kenyans at a guest-house in Kenya’s northeastern town of Mandera early this morning, sources said. Somali Al Shabaab rebels took responsibility for the pre-dawn attack on the guest-house, where a Kenyan theatre troupe from outside the area was staying, […]
Pastor, Family in Pakistan Evicted from Home with Police Help after Muslims Attack
Islamists threaten to stir up religious tensions in property dispute.
October 22, 2016 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Defying a court order, police in Punjab Province forcibly evicted a pastor and his family from their home this week after Muslims attacked them in a bid to seize the property, sources said. Pastor Michael Robert of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Farooqabad, Sheikhupura District, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) […]
Extended Family Expelled from Village in Chiapas, Mexico
In two other states, three more Catholic priests shot dead.
October 21, 2016 By -
(Morning Star News) – A Christian family of six and 10 other relatives are facing hunger and illness in Chiapas, Mexico after local officials drove them from their land for non-compliance with a “traditionalist” mix of indigenous pagan and Catholic rituals, according to a Mexico City-based news outlet. The family patriarch, identified only as Fernando […]
More than 48 Christians Killed in Kaduna, Nigeria Massacres
Muslim Fulani herdsmen attack over the weekend and in late September.
October 19, 2016 By -
GODOGODO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 40 Christians in an attack in this town in northern Nigeria on Saturday (Oct. 15) and left another eight dead in an assault three weeks earlier, area leaders said. Besides the eight slain on Sept. 24-26 in Godogodo, a predominantly Christian community in Kaduna […]
Pakistan Supreme Court Delays Ruling on Asia Bibi Case as Islamist Pressures Mount
Justice recuses himself in appeal of death sentence for Christian mother.
October 13, 2016 By -
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan’s highest profile blasphemy case, the country’s Supreme Court today delayed ruling on an appeal against the death sentence given to Christian mother of five Aasiya Noreen. The ruling on the death sentence given to Noreen, commonly known as […]
Authorities in Sudan Arrest More Christians in Takeover of School
Two pastors, seven others detained for four days.
October 13, 2016 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Two pastors and seven other Christians in Sudan were detained for four days last week after trying to stop a group of civilians and police from taking over their school, according to one of the arrested pastors. Local police on Oct. 6 arrested the Rev. Samuel Suliman, headmaster of […]
Church in Northern Kenya Fearful after Gruesome Attack on Christians
At least six dead in grenade and gun assault on ‘infidels.’
October 7, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Church members in a northeastern town in Kenya fear for their lives after Islamic extremists targeted Christians in a grenade and gun attack early Thursday morning (Oct. 6) that killed six people, sources said. Targeting predominantly Christian migrant workers from Kenya’s interior, rebels from Somalia’s Al Shabaab group reportedly took […]
Burning of Pastor’s House in Zanzibar, Tanzania Leaves Family of 11 Homeless
Muslim extremists suspected in attack on church leader’s home.
October 5, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor, his wife and their nine children have been sleeping on the floor of their small church building on the island of Zanzibar since Muslim extremists set their house on fire in August. Pastor Damson Maonesho has seen his 9-month-old baby contract pneumonia since his family had to […]
Authorities in Turkey Arrest Killers in Malatya Slayings
Five nationalists had been freed after conviction, sentencing.
September 30, 2016 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Turkey last night arrested the five Muslim nationalists convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the torture and murder of three Christians in southeast Turkey in 2007. A source told Morning Star News of the arrests last evening, and advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC) confirmed it […]