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 […]
Christian Pastor Slain over Outreach to Muslims, Sources Say
Police say suspect confessed motive for killing bishop.
June 18, 2021 By -
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 […]
COVID-19 Leads to Prosecution of House-Church Group in Vietnam
Organization’s registration suspended.
June 2, 2021 By -
(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 […]
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 […]