JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A group claiming affiliation with the Islamic State (IS) announced the beheading of a Christian from South Sudan in a video posted on Sunday (Oct. 18). A masked man who carries out the killing in the video, presumably in Libya, states that he is defending Muslim brothers he claims […]
Video Released from Libya of Beheading of Christian from South Sudan
Masked man claims affiliation with Islamic State.
October 20, 2015 By -
Pastor in Bangladesh Describes Attempt to Slit His Throat
Member of violent Islamist group suspected.
October 11, 2015 By -
DHAKA, Bangladesh (Morning Star News) – Two of the three suspected Muslim extremists who tried to cut the throat of a pastor in northwestern Bangladesh last week met with him in mid-September and feigned interest in converting, the church leader told Morning Star News. Luke Sarker, the 52-year-old pastor of Faith Bible Church in Ishwardi, Pabna […]
Islamic State Threatens to Kill Christians in Syria in Video Showing Executions
Three Assyrians shot to death in recording.
October 9, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) late last month killed three Assyrian Christians, presumably in Syria, according to an execution video released Wednesday (Oct. 7). In the video, the group threatened to kill some 200 other Christians in Syria unless it receives a ransom of $50,000 each for their release. […]
Christians in Syria Struggle to Survive amid Terrors
Pastor caught between obligations to ministry and to family.
October 2, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – His 6-year-old daughter still wakes up screaming, more than three years after the sounds and sights of war first gave her night terrors. At least a few times each week, she wakes up with her muscles clenched, her head thrown back and her mouth open, screaming. Her father, a pastor […]
Court Ruling in Argentina Spurs Prosecution of Aggression against Church
Criminal charges pursued in case of death threats, violence.
September 25, 2015 By -
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Morning Star News) – After years of inaction, federal prosecutors in Argentina are pursuing criminal charges against perpetrators of religious persecution against an evangelical church in Rio Tercero, Cordoba. The prosecution follows a May 29 judicial ruling that declared the long-running campaign of threats, vandalism and violence against the Pueblo Grande Baptist Church “a […]
Attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria Kill 38, Displace 5,000
Nine Christians also reported killed in Taraba, and two in Nasarawa.
September 22, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Authorities declined to acknowledge that Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind a rash of attacks on Christian communities in Plateau state last week that took 38 lives and displaced 5,000 people, area sources said. More than 100 armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 16) attacked the […]
College Student in Uganda Whose Family Left Islam Is Beaten, Raped
Assailants spoke of killing her, 19-year-old says.
September 18, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three men eat and raped a 19-year-old Catholic woman in Uganda last week, sources said. The student at St. Mary’s Teachers College in Bukedea, in the district of the same name about 50 miles from Mbale in Eastern Uganda, said she was returning from class on Sept. 9 when she […]
Pastor in Laos Stabbed to Death
Church planter refused orders to stop proclaiming Christ.
September 17, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern Laos who disregarded officials’ orders to stop preaching Christ has been stabbed to death, sources said. A prison official identified only as Wansai entered the home of pastor Singkeaw Wongkongpheng in Na-ang village, Chomphet District, Luang Prabang Province on the night of Sept. 8, relatives told advocacy […]
Court in Sudan Rules Government Interfered with Church
Committees imposed on SPEC congregation in Muslims’ attempt to take over property.
September 16, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A court has ruled that committees the Sudanese government imposed on a North Khartoum church in order to enable Muslim investors to take it over were illegal, sources said. A victory in the Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church’s four-year battle to retain ownership of its property, the Aug. 31 ruling […]
Christians in Jharkhand, India Attacked with Axes, Clubs
Armed Hindu extremists threaten death for declining to renounce Christ.
September 15, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attack on a prayer meeting in Jharkhand state that sent six people to the hospital on Sept. 4 began when Hindu women entered the home where it was held and began insulting Christians, sources said. By the end of the day, Hindu extremists with guns, axes, spades and clubs […]