JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Intelligence agents of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Jan. 14 arrested and tortured at least seven Christians in Shendi, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of Khartoum, sources said. The members of the Sudanese Church of Christ had sought refuge in areas controlled by the SAF from the […]
Authorities in Sudan Arrest, Torture Seven Displaced Christians
Military Intelligence falsely accuses them of theft, sources say.
January 24, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
Prison Terms for Christians in Iran Shot Up in 2024, Group Says
Report on sham judiciary released as regime faces international review.
January 22, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LONDON (Morning Star News) – Bent on suppressing Christianity in Iran, Islamic courts handed down six times more prison time to persecuted Christians in 2024 than the previous year, according to advocacy group Article 18. Iranian courts last year sentenced 96 Christians across the country to 263 years in prison for practicing their faith – compared […]
Five Muslims Abduct Christian Girl, 14, in Pakistan
Family fears she is forcibly converted to Islam for ‘marriage.’
January 21, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Five Muslims on Jan. 9 abducted a 14-year-old Christian girl from outside her home in Pakistan, her father said. Sharif Masih, of the Korpur area of Sialkot, Punjab Province, said he fears the kidnappers may try to forcibly convert his daughter, Saneha Sharif, to Islam and force her […]
Christian Woman Miscarries after Assault in India
Village head and family assault her on expectation she would pray for relative.
January 20, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian woman in central India suffered a miscarriage this month after tribal relatives who practice traditional religion beat and strangled her, sources said. Kunika Kashyap was more than six weeks pregnant when she was admitted to Government District Hospital-Maharani in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh state in serious condition on […]
Christian in Sudan Loses Wife, Home for Converting
Muslim family disowns him and compels divorce.
January 16, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Muslim family of a young man in Sudan’s Darfur Region has disowned him and compelled his wife to divorce him because he converted to Christianity, an area source said. The convert in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur state, put his faith in Christ in January of last […]
Authorities in Sudan Ban Christmas Service
Christians are told worship not allowed in ‘Muslim area.’
January 14, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan prevented Christians internally displaced by war from celebrating Christmas in a park where they had taken refuge, sources said. In Northern state’s town of Wadi Halfa, the internally displaced Christians were shocked when security officials at the park where they had set up make-shift shelters told […]
Islamists Collude with Pakistani Officials in False Blasphemy Cases
Five victims tortured to death in custody, rights attorneys say.
January 13, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – An Islamist gang trapped more than 450 people in false blasphemy charges in recent years in Pakistan, including five who were tortured death in custody, according to human rights lawyers. The “blasphemy business group” has devastated numerous families with the collusion of federal investigators, said attorneys Usman Warraich, […]
Hindu Nationalists Tie Up, Brutalize Christian Woman in India
Others also beaten in attack that left evangelist unconscious.
January 9, 2025 By - 1 Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in eastern India on Dec. 26 stripped and beat a tribal Christian woman, tying her to a tree after she recovered her clothes and continuing to torture her till she lost consciousness, sources said. While Subhasini Singh, 40, was meeting at the home of Gobinda Singh for a […]
Kidnapped Pastors Regain Freedom in Northeastern Nigeria
Identity of assailants and terms of release undisclosed.
January 9, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Two church pastors kidnapped on Dec. 29 in northeastern Nigeria were released on Sunday (Jan. 5), Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) leaders said. The Rev. James Kwayang and the Rev. Ishaku Chiwar of the EYN (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria) were kidnapped by terrorists from church premises […]
Christians Slain in Attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria
Three slain on Jan. 6, eight others in early December.
January 8, 2025 By - Leave a Comment
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Monday (Jan. 6) killed three Christians in an attack on a village in Plateau state, the latest of 11 killings in the area since early December, sources said. The assailants invaded Sha village, Bokkos County, at about 10:30 p.m., area residents said. Samuel Amalau, […]