NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists forced more than 50 Christians from three villages to flee their homes and take shelter in the jungles of eastern India last month. The Christians belong to 13 tribal families of Rayagada District, Odisha state who have been stranded in the jungle without proper shelter, food, water and […]
Christian Families Driven into Jungles of Eastern India
Police advise them to renounce Christ, victims say.
June 25, 2021 By -
Armed Fulani Kill Doctor, 17 other Christians in Nigeria
Predominantly Muslim herdsmen attack in Niger, Plateau states.
June 24, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani shot a Christian doctor to death on June 17 in Niger state, Nigeria following attacks that killed 17 Christians in Plateau state. Precious Emeka Chinedu was killed after five Fulani herdsmen walked into the private hospital he operated in Salka village, Magama County, and abducted him the evening […]
Criminal Investigation of Church in Vietnam over COVID-19 Confirmed
Official urges media to make corrections of misleading statements.
June 23, 2021 By -
(Morning Star News) – The threat of investigating a church for possible criminal activity in the spread of COVID-19 in Vietnam was confirmed in a letter on Friday (June 18) from officials to a recently formed house-church alliance, sources said. In the letter of reply to the Vietnam Evangelical Alliance, made up of 40 house-church […]
Another 13-Year-Old Girl Forced to Marry/Convert to Islam
A judge, shelter again appear complicit in crime, sources say.
June 21, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tears rolled down Shahid Gill’s face as he recalled the day last month when a court in Pakistan handed his 13-year-old daughter into the custody of a 30-year-old Muslim man. Gill, a Roman Catholic, works as a tailor in Gujranwala city, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Lahore. His daughter, […]
Christian Pastor Slain over Outreach to Muslims, Sources Say
Police say suspect confessed motive for killing bishop.
June 18, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A radical Muslim has confessed to killing a 70-year-old pastor in Uganda on June 11, sources said. Bishop Francis Obo, senior pastor of Mpingire Pentecoastal Revival Church Ministries International in Odapako village, Mpingire Sub-County, was killed after a group of Muslim extremists dressed in Islamic attire stopped him and his […]
Acquitted Christian Couple, Attorney Fear for their Lives
Islamic extremists in Pakistan call for their deaths.
June 15, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple acquitted by a high court in Pakistan fear for their lives as Islamic extremists have started a campaign calling for their murders ahead of their yet unconfirmed release from jail, sources said. The Lahore High Court on June 3 overturned the 2014 conviction of Shagufta Kausar and […]
Employer Allegedly Sends Hit Men to Kill Christian
In another village, Muslim relatives destroy home of new believer.
June 8, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian employee’s Muslim supervisor sent people to kill him last month in eastern Uganda after he refused to convert to Islam, sources said. Christians at the funeral of evangelist Fred Isiko, who drove a van for Ashirafu Kasenyi’s cargo transport company, said Kasenyi was behind the killing of Isiko […]
Pastor in Algeria Receives Suspended Sentence and Fine
His church building one of three a court orders sealed.
June 6, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Less than a week after a a court in Algeria ordered pastor Rachid Seighir’s church to close, a judge in handed him a one-year suspended sentence and a fine for “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at his bookstore, sources said. Pastor Seighir’s Oratoire Church building in the […]
Christian Couple on Death Row in Pakistan Acquitted
Blasphemy charges based on false evidence, judges rule.
June 3, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court (LHC) today acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on charges of blaspheming Islam, their attorney said. Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh accepted an appeal challenging the death sentence and acquitted Shagufta Kausar, 52, and her husband, 49-year-old Shafqat Emmanuel, on the […]
Pastor Seriously Wounded, Father Killed in Northern India
Tribal relatives arrested on murder charges.
June 3, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Relatives of a pastor in northern India killed his Christian father with axe and sword blows and seriously wounded the church leader and his brother for leaving tribal religion, sources said. While local media and police portrayed the May 18 attack in Rajasthan state as a dispute over land, Pastor […]