JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Church leaders have confirmed reports that Islamic terrorists who threatened to execute a pastor they abducted in northeast Nigeria freed him on Wednesday (March 3). The president of the Church of Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, or EYN), Joel S. Billi, told church leaders on Thursday (March 4) […]
Church Confirms Release of Pastor Threatened with Execution
Chibok area EYN leader was taken captive by Islamic extremist militants in Nigeria.
March 7, 2021 By -
Two Christians Sentenced to Prison and Heavy Fine in Algeria
Pastor, bookseller convicted for Christian literature at their store.
March 4, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A court in Algeria has convicted and sentenced in absentia a pastor and another Christian to two years in prison and a heavy fine, accusing them of “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at their bookstore, sources said. Pastor Rachid Seighir and Nouh Hamimi learned by a written […]
Pastor Threatened with Execution in Nigeria Reportedly Freed
Christians said to have contributed to ransom payment.
March 3, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic terrorists who last week threatened to execute a pastor they abducted in northeast Nigeria reportedly freed him today. Nigerian newspaper Premium Times reported today that pastor Bulus Yikura, a Church of the Brethren pastor abducted from Pemi village near Chibok, Borno state in an Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas […]
Police in India Allow Attack on Churches, then Arrest Christians
Pastor charged under new ‘anti-conversion’ ordinance in Madhya Pradesh.
March 3, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Armed Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh, India disrupted worship services at two churches on Feb. 7, beat congregation members and pressured police to arrest more than 20 Christians on suspicion of forcible conversion, sources said. Under a new anti-conversion ordinance that came into effect in the state on Jan. 9, […]
Christian in Pakistan Convicted of ‘Blasphemy’ Released on Bail
Appeal of Christian couple on death row again inexplicably delayed.
March 2, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Lahore High Court has released on bail a 20-year-old Christian two years after his conviction under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for allegedly posting a sacrilegious photograph on social media, his lawyer said. Incarcerated since his arrest in 2016, Nabeel Masih became the youngest person to be charged with blasphemy in […]
Pastor in India Beaten for Refusing to Help Pay for Tribal Rituals
Police’s solution: hand over money and don’t press charges.
February 28, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Local officials and other tribal animists in a village in eastern India locked council doors, tied up pastor Lakshman Oraon and beat him for more than an hour, but he kept praising God, he said. “I did not shout or cry before them,” Pastor Oraon told Morning Star News. “I […]
Christian Mother in Uganda Hit with Acid for Her Faith, Sources Say
Former Muslim says husband assaulted her.
February 26, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple visiting a young mother at her home in eastern Uganda last month decided to pray for her before leaving – triggering an immediate response from her Muslim husband. “In the middle of the prayers, my husband walked out and began calling Muslims and mentioning that infidels were […]
Islamist Terrorists in Nigeria Threaten to Execute Pastor
Church leader pleads for rescue from ISWAP (formerly Boko Haram) captors.
February 25, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A pastor abducted from northeastern Nigeria by Islamic extremist militants reportedly says in a video that they will kill him on Wednesday (March 3) if their ransom demands are not met. In the video sent to Nigerian online news outlet Human Angle, pastor Bulus Yikura of the Church of the […]
Herdsmen Kill Church Elder, Abduct Three Other Christians
Muslim Fulani also wound Christian in attack in northwest Nigeria.
February 23, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a church elder and abducted three other Christians in northwest Nigeria on Feb. 16, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot dead Mati Sani, a 65-year-old elder with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), in an attack in the village of Kadabuki Dan-Marabu, Kankara County, Katsina state at […]
Christian Leader in Sudan Detained and Beaten, Sources Say
Security personnel suspected of seizing youth leader.
February 22, 2021 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Christian leader in Sudan was detained and beaten on Friday (Feb. 19) for speaking out against the burning of a church building, sources said. Masked men believed to be national security personnel seized Osama Saeed Kodi, chairman of the Christian Youth Union of Al Jazirah state, on Friday […]