ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Police in Turkey arrested 14 people for planning to assassinate a pastor in Izmit, 62 miles (100 kilometers) east of Istanbul, during an evangelistic event this week. Of the 14 suspects, two attended the church for a year claiming to be Christians, said the target of the plot, pastor Emre […]
Plot to Assassinate Pastor in Turkey Thwarted
Two of 14 suspects became regulars at church.
January 18, 2013 By -
Prospects Appear Dim for Religious Freedom in Cuba
Increased abuses range from arrests to enticing Christian leaders into immorality.
January 15, 2013 By -
HAVANA (Morning Star News) – The Rev. Carlos Lamelas knows first-hand the diabolical nature of attempts by Cuban authorities to cripple Christianity on the Communist isle. Refusing to allow government interference in the internal affairs of his congregation, Lamelas was charged with “human trafficking” (allegedly helping Christians to flee the island). He spent four […]
Attacked Christians in India Fear Returning Home
After assault on church, more than 100 tribal people in Maharashtra state flee.
January 14, 2013 By -
MUMBAI, India (Morning Star News) – After Hindu nationalists in Maharashtra state attacked Christians two weeks ago because they refused to honor a tribal deity – violence that led many to flee their homes – the extremists yesterday assaulted remaining Christians as they met for worship, sources said. As police stood by watching, about […]
Sudan Cracks Down on South Sudanese Christians
Church building demolished; student imprisoned.
January 10, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities rang in the new year by bulldozing a church building outside Khartoum because it belonged to Christians of South Sudanese origin and lacked a permit, a source said. South Sudanese have been ordered to leave the country following the new republic’s secession from Sudan in July […]
Sudan Bombings Kill More Nuba Christians Around Christmas
Several children dead after aerial attacks.
December 31, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Non-Arab Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains said they feel forgotten after Sudanese air forces killed at least 11 of the faithful in bombings before and after Christmas, according to area sources. Following bombings of non-Arab civilians in Christian villages in Sudan’s South Kordofan state from Dec. 18 to […]
Catholic Priest Seriously Wounded in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Suspected Islamist extremists shoot clergyman through cheeks on Christmas Day.
December 30, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic extremists on Christmas Day shot a Roman Catholic priest on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, seriously wounding him, area church leaders said. Two assailants on a motorcycle shot the Rev. Ambrose Mkenda through his cheeks and in the shoulder before 8 p.m. as he arrived home in […]
Algerian Christian Unknowingly Convicted, Sentenced
Convert is tried in absentia for ‘pressuring Muslim’ who urged him to return to Islam.
December 21, 2012 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Without any prior notice or summons from police, a Christian convert from Islam received word on Dec. 11 that he had been convicted of pressuring a Muslim to leave his religion, he said. Mohamed Ibaouene, 36, was convicted in absentia on July 4 by a court in Tigzirt […]
Swedish Christian Worker Dies from Pakistan Shooting
Bible school teacher, 70, gunned down by suspected Islamic extremists in Lahore.
December 13, 2012 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Birgitta Almby, Bible school teacher and director of a Christian-run technical training institute in Lahore, died last night in her native Sweden from wounds sustained in a Dec. 3 shooting here by suspected Islamic extremists. She was 70. Shot by two armed men outside her house in Lahore’s upscale Model […]
Police Contribute to Hindu Extremist Violence in India
Officer hits Christian for reporting assailants who beat pastor unconscious, church members say.
December 12, 2012 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Refusing to register a complaint against Hindu extremists who stoned and beat a pastor until he was unconscious, police in Madhya Pradesh state also struck a Christian who tried to report the attack, area church leaders said. Four police officers on Nov. 30 broke into the worship service of […]
Female Christians in Cairo, Egypt Fearful of Riding Subway
After assaults by covered women, is it better to risk harassment on mixed-gender cars?
November 26, 2012 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Coptic girls and women are wary about boarding Cairo subway cars – or are too fearful to enter them at all – after a series of attacks on female Christians on the transit system. In three separate incidents in the past month, women wearing the niqab – a […]