ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Turkish court ruled on Tuesday (Jan. 26) that the government was negligent in its duty to protect three Christians who were tortured and killed in 2007 and ordered it to pay damages to the victims’ families. The Malatya Administrative Court ruled that, nearly nine years ago, the Interior Ministry […]
Turkish Court Rules Government Failed to Protect Christians Killed in Malatya
Civil suit results in order to pay damages to relatives of victims.
January 27, 2016 By -
Church Building in Algeria Looted, Vandalized
Congregation has history of opposition from Islamists.
January 12, 2016 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, (Morning Star News) – Unknown “thugs” who wrote a jihadist slogan on a church building in the center of this city on the Algerian coast on Thursday night (Jan. 7) looted and damaged the property, sources said. The assailants vandalized or stole furniture, worship items and money worth about US$8,000 from the Light […]
Pastor Hacked to Death, Bible Study Members Poisoned in Eastern Uganda
Four family members, pregnant neighbor die after eating tainted food.
December 25, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over their land, area church leaders said. In Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namutumba District, Muslims erected a boundary fence with poles and barbed […]
Police Break Spine of One Christian, Nose of Another in Tamil Nadu, India
Ministry workers disparaged for their faith, severely beaten.
December 23, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The two Christians, A. Rethinakumar and C. Nova of Jesus Redeems Ministry, were traveling by motorcycle in Thomas Nagar on Nov. 3 at about 2:30 […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill 15 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
Gunmen’s victims include children ages 1, 3 and 5.
December 21, 2015 By -
HWAK KWATA-ZAWAN, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Dec. 13 attacked two households and a compound of displaced people in this village near Jos, killing 15 Christians, including two small children. The attack at about 8:30 p.m. on the two homes and the compound housing Christians displaced by a previous attack in Bachi, […]
Two More Pastors Arrested in Sudan
NISS also seeks arrest of two previously acquitted, South Sudanese church leaders.
December 20, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan, December 20, 2015 (Morning Star News) – Security officials arrested two Sudanese pastors in the Khartoum area of Sudan on Friday (Dec. 18), sources said. Authorities from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested both leaders of the Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) separately at their respective homes at 7 a.m., […]
Maoist Rebel Group Suspected in Killing of Pastor, Son in the Philippines
Church planters shot while bathing in river.
December 16, 2015 By -
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Christians on the Philippine island of Mindanao believe Maoist rebels are responsible for killing a Baptist pastor and his adult son near a southern town on Nov. 27. A friend of the pastor in Mindanao told Morning Star News that area Christians believe insurgents with the New People’s Army (NPA), […]
Egyptian Army ‘Suicides’ Raise Specter of Persecution of Christians in Military
Evidence points to murder in soldiers' deaths.
December 11, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In a daze, Nataay Boushra made his way out of the morgue and into a hallway of the army hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Lost in grief, he walked through the hallways of the medical facility; past nurses, past doctors and past groups of young soldiers talking to each other, but […]
Christian Slum Dwellers Fight Eviction in Islamabad, Pakistan
Government statement to Supreme Court reflects deep prejudice, critics say.
December 9, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Yaqub Masih is one of thousands of impoverished Christians facing demolition of his makeshift home in Islamabad after a government agency last week stated that informal slum settlements of Christian migrants threatened the city’s Muslim-majority demographic. “It is one thing being poor, but things are far worse if you are […]
Muslim Who Attacked Ministry Building in Nigeria Attempts to Seize Property
Pastor’s wife, students inside as demolition began.
December 7, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in central Nigeria who destroyed part of a ministry facility, upsetting students inside, has filed suit to seize the property, a ministry leader said. Facing a charge of criminal trespass for the partial demolition of the facility in September, Mohammed Uduans has filed a civil suit against Segun […]