LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple was arrested on Saturday (July 20) for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages to a Muslim cleric in Gojra, a religiously volatile city where a week before a young Christian man was sentenced to life in prison on the same charge. Shafqat Masih, 43, and his 40-year-old wife […]
More Christians in Pakistan Accused of Sending ‘Blasphemous’ Text Messages
Married couple jailed under laws that call for death or life in prison.
July 22, 2013 By -
Christians Flee Villages in Egypt’s North Sinai after Terrifying Murders
Killings top months of kidnappings, attacks by Islamic extremist militants.
July 16, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Christians in two villages in North Sinai, Egypt have fled for their lives after a priest was gunned down and a Christian businessman was abducted and killed, his decapitated body dumped onto a street. On Thursday (July 11) the body of Christian businessman Magdy Lamei was found in the town […]
Sudan Tracking Down Converts from Islam in Purge of Christianity
Christian flees country after weeks of threats from authorities.
July 12, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Christian has fled the country after authorities in Khartoum threatened to kill him for refusing to divulge names of converts from Islam, sources said. The Christian, a native of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains area, left the country last month after officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service […]
Christians in Egypt Fearful after Five Copts Killed
Priest, four others slain; more violence expected over Ramadan.
July 8, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Following the shooting death of a priest in Northern Sinai, Christians in Upper Egypt and elsewhere are living in fear after four Coptic Christians were killed near Luxor in the wake of the deposing of Mohamed Morsi as president. “I am too scared to leave – I haven’t been able […]
Mulinde, other Converts from Islam in Uganda Struggle to Recover
Even in Christian-majority nation, following Jesus can mean painful loss.
July 8, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Even in Christian-majority Uganda, two former sheikhs (Muslim teachers) and a mother of seven are struggling to recover from the fury Islamic extremists unleashed on them for converting. Senior Pastor/Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside Kampala has begun facial reconstruction after assailants who shouted “Allahu Akbar [God […]
Two Christians Wounded in Church Attack in Iraq; another Killed in Store Bombing
Gunmen surprise sleeping, off-duty church security guards in rest area.
June 28, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Authorities are investigating an attack by gunmen at a church in Baghdad, Iraq this week that wounded two Christian guards, one seriously, according to the parish priest. The Rev. Martin David of St. Mary’s Assyrian Catholic Church told Morning Star News that on Tuesday (June 25) at 2 a.m. […]
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Christian
Al Shabaab rebels publicly shoot young man for his faith.
June 20, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab in Somalia earlier this month publicly shot a young man to death after identifying him as a Christian, sources said. The insurgents in Jamaame district in southern Somalia had been monitoring 28-year-old Hassan Hurshe since his arrival from a Kenya in 2010 and […]
Rash of Church Closures Evidence of Plan to End Unregistered Congregations, CAA Says
More than a dozen churches in Hainan Province ordered to stop meeting .
June 4, 2013 By -
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – China’s shuttering of more than a dozen unregistered congregations in Hainan Province is evidence of a plan to do away with house churches, according to the China Aid Association (CAA). Besides the church closures on Hainan Island off China’s southern-most coast in the past several weeks, officials have threatened to […]
Christians Deported from Morocco Fight to be Reunited with Orphans
Court rules against Village of Hope, reversing ruling that it was a legal entity.
May 31, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Expatriate Christians who ran an orphanage in Morocco until they were deported on charges of proselytism said yesterday they will take their fight to be reunited with the children to the Supreme Court if necessary. An appellate court earlier this month delivered a verbal ruling in favor of the Moroccan […]
Christians in Morocco Fear Fatwa Portends Harsher Treatment
Converts unsettled by call for execution of those who leave Islam.
May 4, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A Moroccan fatwa calling for the execution of those who leave Islam has left many Christian converts in turmoil. There is still much debate over how the fatwa, which only recently came to light after the government’s top authority on Islam issued it last year, could change laws in Morocco. […]