NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of seven children in eastern Uganda suffered serious wounds and is cut off from her family after her husband and other Muslim relatives attacked her on Easter Sunday for putting her faith in Christ, sources said. Salimati Naibira, 37, of Bukoba B village, Mayuge District, lost consciousness after […]
Mother of Seven Wounded, Loses Family for Becoming Christian
Husband attacks her with dagger, she says.
April 13, 2021 By -
Christian Nurses Arrested under Blasphemy Law in Pakistan
Muslim co-workers instigate attacks against two women, sources say.
April 11, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Two Christian nurses complying with a supervisor’s orders to remove stickers at a government hospital were arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan on Friday (April 9) after a Muslim employee attacked one of them with a knife for the removal of a sticker bearing Koranic verses, sources said. Nurse Mariam Lal and […]
Released from Prison, Algerian Christian Persecuted in Tunisia
Slimane Bouhafs seeks refuge in third country.
April 4, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – After Slimane Bouhafs was released from prison in 2018, having served nearly two years for violating Algeria’s blasphemy laws, further persecution drove him to Tunisia. Threats on his life continue there, and he is stuck in legal limbo – missing his daughter’s wedding on Friday (April 2). “My daughter who […]
Christians Forced to ‘Re-Convert’ to Tribal Religion in Central India
Four families assaulted and cut off from water, fields.
April 1, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When followers of tribal deities in central India threatened to kill 10 Christian families if they refused to participate in a “re-conversion” ceremony back to their ancestral religion last month, all but 10 Christians fled the village. “The village gathering threatened to beat us to death if we did not […]
German Pastor Hopeful in Fight to Remain in Turkey
Wave of expulsions leaving many churches without leaders.
March 30, 2021 By -
(Morning Star News) – A German pastor fighting expulsion from Turkey is hopeful that he may be the exception to a wave of foreign Christian leaders expelled from the country as “threats to national security.” Though Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has applied the label to pastor Michael Feulner, he told Morning Star News said […]
Christians Abducted from Bus in North-Central Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen suspected.
March 29, 2021 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria suspect Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind the kidnapping of eight Christians from a bus in the southern part of the state on Friday (March 26). The members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) were traveling from the city of Kaduna to Kafanchan when […]
Christian’s Five-Year Prison Sentence for Facebook Post Upheld in Algeria
Attorney sees anti-Christian bias in verdict.
March 23, 2021 By -
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge in Oran, Algeria on Monday (March 22) upheld a five-year prison sentence for a Christian convicted of reposting a cartoon of Islam’s prophet on his Facebook account three years ago, sources said. Farid Khemisti, attorney for Hamid (surname withheld for security reasons), said the 43-year-old father of four young […]
Christians Seriously Injured in Mob Assault on House Church
Attack in central India leaves five people hospitalized.
March 23, 2021 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A mob armed with axes and thick wooden batons in central India disrupted a home worship service and beat and threatened Christians for leaving their ancestral tribal religion this month, sources said. Eight Christians were injured and five of them hospitalized, including two women and a pastor who suffered head […]
Life Sentence for Christian Changed to Death Penalty
Judge bows to Islamist legal group’s pressure.
March 19, 2021 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Ruling in favor of an Islamist legal group’s petition, the Lahore High Court on March 10 changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011. The high court’s approval of an appeal for the criminal code revision […]
Christian Mother of Three Beaten, Driven from Home in India
Officer says she should have been killed for leaving tribal religion.
March 17, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Homeless since relatives attacked her for failing to respect their tribal rituals last month, a Christian mother of three young children in eastern India sought help from police. The next morning, Feb. 10, an officer from Lesliganj police station in Jharkhand state’s Palamu District came to her village and accused […]