LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Johnson Masih and his wife Samina were shocked when police in Lahore, Pakistan told them their 13-year-old daughter, missing since Feb. 19, had converted to Islam and married a Muslim. A few days after registering a missing person report with police on Feb. 21, the investigating officer summoned them to […]
Another Christian Girl in Pakistan Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted
Police shielding kidnappers, keeping parents from 13-year-old, sources say.
March 12, 2021 By -
Pastor’s Relatives Raped after Imam’s Wife Turns to Christ
Mosque leader threatens church leader, plans attack, sources say.
March 11, 2021 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mosque leader sent men to rape three female relatives of a church pastor in western Uganda because the imam’s wife put her faith in Christ, sources said. The imam also sent a Muslim to the church’s worship services in the Kasese area to gather information for a future attack […]
Christian Mother Expelled from Village, Threatened with Death
Tribal woman kept from harvesting annual food supply.
March 9, 2021 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – When villagers kept her from harvesting her fields because she had invited a Christian pastor to pray for the harvest, a tribal Adivasi mother in central India went to police thinking officers might help her. Instead, the police inspector at the Polampalli police station in Chhattisgarh state showed Kanni Barse […]
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 -
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) […]
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 […]