NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After deciding their gods were angry at them because neighbors had become Christians, Hindu villagers in Chhattisgarh state last month attacked 28 Christians, drove them from their homes and set their houses on fire, sources said. Christians in Katholi village, Kanker District who were beaten and twice chased out from […]
Hard-line Hindus in India Burn Christian, Set Fire to Houses of Others in Chhattisgarh
Assailants twice drive families out of village.
May 25, 2016 By -
Baptist Pastor Poisoned to Death in Eastern Uganda
Missing Muslim villager suspected.
May 20, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim villager in eastern Uganda is suspected in the poisoning death of a pastor on Sunday (May 15), sources said. Micah Byamukama, pastor of Kasecha Baptist Church in Kasecha village, Kibuku District, died at Kabweri Health Centre at 9 p.m. after ingesting an insecticide that Ahmed Mupere put into […]
Muslims in Pakistan Threaten Christians after Fatwa Issued against ‘Blasphemer’
Police find no basis for accusation.
May 13, 2016 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslims in Pakistan have told 300 impoverished villagers they must either produce a Christian accused of blasphemy, leave the area, convert to Islam or be killed, sources said. Imran Masih, a 28-year-old resident of Chak 44 village in Punjab Province’s Mandi Bahauddin District, was accused on April 19 of keeping […]
Sudan Releases One of Two Church Leaders Arrested in December
Member of embattled church in north Khartoum freed.
May 10, 2016 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan today released one of two church leaders jailed since December, sources said. Telahoon Nogose Kassa, head of discipleship at the embattled Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, was released after Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested him without charges on Dec. 13, 2015, according to church members. “Finally, […]
Hindu Extremists in Uttar Pradesh, India Torture Christian Convert
On same day in another area, 57-year-old pastor beaten.
May 6, 2016 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in India initially declined to take action after Hindu extremists tortured one Christian and severely beat another, sources said. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Hindu extremists in Tewardih, Varanasi who have long insisted that a 30-year-old convert from Hinduism, Joginder Gold, stop worshipping Christ took him to […]
Bill in Kaduna State, Nigeria Would Criminalize Street Evangelism, ‘Offensive’ Preaching, Clergy Say
Legislation targets Christianity, church leaders say.
May 4, 2016 By -
KADUNA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Street evangelists would be fined and “offensive” preaching at church services would send pastors to jail for up to two years under legislation proposed by the Muslim governor of Kaduna state, church leaders said. As discussion of the legislation heated up in the past month, Christian leaders voiced alarm over […]
Woman in Uganda Says Muslims Beat, Raped Her for Accusing Imam of Killing Her Father
Christian, 22, seriously wounded after testifying.
April 30, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslims in eastern Uganda beat and raped a young Christian woman for testifying that a mosque leader killed her father because of his faith, sources said. The imam at a mosque in Kanyumu village, Pallisa District, Sheikh Musana Ibrahim, and two other Muslims killed Samson Mukama on Jan. 28, according […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Massacres Reach Southern Nigeria
With or apart from Islamic extremist groups, violence said to pose threat of civil war.
April 27, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani attacks on Christians have advanced beyond Nigeria’s central zone into a southern state, with a church leader saying the aggression could cast Nigeria into civil war as a massacre this week took at least 27 lives. Following the February massacre in Agatu, in the central-eastern state of Benue, […]
Muslims in Uganda Kill Christians’ Livestock, Demolish Church Building
Village Islamists order end to raising pigs.
April 21, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a village in eastern Uganda last week killed Christians’ pigs and tore down their church building, sources said. A Muslim mob demolished the building of the 450-member Nalugondo Church of Uganda building at about midnight on April 12, shouting, “We cannot live together with neighbors who are infidels. […]
Woman in China Killed after Demolition Crew Buries Her and Husband Alive
Couple tried to stop bulldozer from destroying church building.
April 19, 2016 By -
(Morning Star News) – A government-backed demolition team in Henan Province, China last week buried a Christian couple alive as they tried to protect their church building, killing the wife, according to China Aid. Ding Cuimei and her husband, Li Jiangong, on Thursday (April 14) stepped in front of a bulldozer the demolition company had […]