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 […]
Christian Convert from Islam Beheaded in Somalia
Islamic extremists accuse young man of being spy, embracing ‘foreign religion.’
November 17, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday (Nov. 16) killed a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said. The extremists beheaded 25-year-old Farhan Haji Mose after monitoring his movements for six months, […]
View from the Altar – Bomb Blast at Church in Nigeria
Priest relates experience; two blinded in suicide attack by suspected Islamic extremist.
November 9, 2012 By -
KADUNA CITY, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – With one eye still working, the Rev. Michael Boni Bazza was able to see his parishioners charging helter-skelter after the Oct. 28 suicide blast that claimed at least seven lives. Burned on his head and mouth, the priest of St. Rita’s Catholic Church in the Malali area of […]
Suicide Bombing at Church Takes More Lives in Nigeria
Within two days of inter-faith peace effort, suspected Islamic extremist attacks.
November 2, 2012 By -
KADUNA CITY, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A suicide bomb explosion that killed seven people at a Catholic church here on Sunday (Oct. 28) was the fourth such attack in Kaduna state in four months. Less than two days after a festival aimed at reconciling Muslims and Christians in this northern Nigeria city, the […]
Sudanese Bible School Re-opens amid Islamist Intimidation
Burned and ransacked in April, Christian compound faces further threats.
October 29, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Amid threats of further losses, classes resumed this month at a Khartoum Bible school and church compound that Muslim extremists set ablaze in April, an area Christian source said. Students and administrators at Gerif West Bible School in Sudan have yet to fully recover their losses from the […]
Father Fights Islamic Bias in Sudan to Visit Children
After his wife divorced him, court prohibited Christian from seeing boys.
October 23, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – After his wife’s family in Sudan urged her to become a Muslim and divorce him earlier this year, Sudanese Christian Mohammed Khidir Khalil was not allowed to see his sons, ages 3 and 5. Unless there is further opposition, however, this Saturday (Oct. 27) will be the first time the […]