(Morning Star News) – A house-church organization in Vietnam is facing government prosecution and community hate due to COVID-19, sources said. A couple who attended the meeting place of the Revival Ekklesia Mission (REM), an independent, charismatic house-church organization headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, went to the Gia Dinh General Hospital on May 26 […]
COVID-19 Leads to Prosecution of House-Church Group in Vietnam
Organization’s registration suspended.
June 2, 2021 By -
Fulani Herdsmen Kill Pastor, 3-Year-Old Son in Nigeria
Attack on mission takes another key Christian worker.
May 30, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in Niger state, Nigeria have shot to death a missionary and pastor and his 3-year-old son, sources said. Leviticus Makpa, 39, had established a Christian school in Kamberi village, where he served as a pastor and church planter. His son, Godsend Makpa, was killed in the attack on […]
Herdsmen Attacks Kill 37 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
Pastor says terrorists roam freely in presence of security personnel.
May 26, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (May 23) killed 14 Christians in a village near Jos, Plateau state and eight others in another village, sources said. Herdsmen attacked Kwi village, Riyom County, near Jos, at about 11 p.m., said area resident Solomon Mandiks, a Christian rights activist. “Fourteen Christians were butchered to […]
Pastor Contracts COVID-19 after Assault in Eastern India
Wife knocked unconscious, uncle injured – and criminally charged.
May 26, 2021 By -
(Update: On June 5, pastor Ramnivas Kumar died of COVID-19. The original story of May 26 follows.) NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern India contracted COVID-19 while seeking treatment at hospitals where personnel were reluctant to admit him for injuries sustained in a Hindu extremist assault last month, sources said. Pastor Ramnivas […]
Two More Christians Killed in Miango, Priest Slain in NW Nigeria
Clergyman in his 70s kidnapped.
May 23, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed two more Christians in Plateau state on Friday night (May 21), the same day a Catholic priest was found slain in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, sources said. Following the killing of a young Christian mother and a 19-year-old Christian man in Jebbu Miango village, Miango District on […]
Young Mother, 19-Year-Old Christian Killed in Central Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen earlier threatened family.
May 21, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria, May 21, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed the wife and nephew of a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria in an attack on their home on Thursday night (May 20), sources said. Jeffrey Moses, 26, said he and his wife, 21-year-old Ladi Jeffrey, and nephew Shadrach Zwewhie, 19, were asleep when […]
Muslims Burn Down Christian Widow’s Reconstructed House
Mother of five fled in 2015 after her husband was killed.
May 16, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A widow and her children who fled their home in eastern Uganda after her husband was killed in 2015 returned this year, only to narrowly escape an attack this month that burned down her reconstructed home, sources said. Muslim extremists burned down the home of Kanifa Namulondo in Kaliro, Bulamogi […]
Ransom Demanded for Pastor Abducted in Southwest Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen suspected.
May 14, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen have demanded 30 million naira (US$73,600) for the release of a Pentecostal church pastor they kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria on Monday night (May 10), according to a local report. Pastor Otamayomi Ogedengbe of Deeper Life Bible Church was taken away at gunpoint from a Bible study […]
Pastor Slain after Leading Muslims to Christ at Religious Debate
Father of 11 planted 50 churches in eastern Uganda.
May 12, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda are suspected in the May 3 killing of a Christian pastor hours after he engaged in a public debate about Christianity and Islam, sources said. Pastor Thomas Chikooma, a resident of Komolo village, Pallisa town, was killed after he was invited to an open-air debate […]
Kidnappings Terrorize Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Nurses, pastor’s wife taken, plus mass abduction from one village.
May 9, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria kidnapped a pastor’s wife from her home and two nurses from a hospital, while other Islamic extremists may have joined herdsmen in abducting more than 70 people from one village, sources said. Fulaki Ozigi was kidnapped along with her husband, Mercy Place Ministry Church pastor […]