ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Turkish authorities have released a U.S. evangelist who was detained last week and ordered to be deported, sources said. Declaring David Byle “a danger to public order,” authorities in Turkey took him into custody on April 6 after asking him to report to the immigration office in Istanbul regarding his […]
Detained U.S. Evangelist in Turkey Released, Ordered To Be Deported
David Byle is declared a ‘danger to public order.’
April 15, 2016 By - 1 Comment
Amid Crackdown, Prisoner in Iran Encourages Faithful to Stand Strong
Christian sneaks out message to flocks increasingly without pastors.
April 1, 2016 By - 1 Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In the face of a crackdown that has crippled Iran’s house-church leadership, an imprisoned convert from Islam has managed to sneak a message of encouragement to Iran’s Christians. With Iran’s house churches mushrooming even as the government has imprisoned or harassed most pastors into exile, a Christian held in Rajai […]
Anti-Christian Hatred Seen in Attack on Church Building in Samsun, Turkey
Police release suspects caught on video.
March 3, 2016 By - 2 Comments
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Four men detained by police for attacking a church building in the Black Sea region of Turkey last week shouted jihadist slogans when released from jail, a marked departure from past harassment, church leaders said. Shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 25, the four Muslims went to a building rented […]
Another Suspicious Coptic Christian ‘Suicide’ in Egyptian Military Raises Anxieties
Family demands autopsy.
March 2, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – The family of another Coptic Christian soldier in the Egyptian army who has died under suspicious circumstances is demanding an autopsy, sources told Morning Star News. On Feb. 17, the Egyptian military informed the family of Michael Gamel Mansour that the 22-year-old conscript from Assuit had committed suicide. Authorities claimed […]
Case Dropped against Christians Arrested for Evangelizing in Alexandria, Egypt
Prosecutors find no evidence of ‘showing disdain’ for ‘heavenly religion.’
February 26, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A regional prosecuting attorney in Egypt has dismissed a case against three Christians arrested last summer and accused of blasphemy during an evangelistic outreach, their attorney said. The three Christians, one of them a minor, were being investigated pending possible charges of “showing disdain” to a “heavenly religion” under a […]
Catholic Monks in Israel Seek Action against Root Causes of Anti-Christian Hatred
Monks on Mt. Zion are attacked nearly once a week.
February 15, 2016 By - 1 Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – After waiting for years for police to act against vandalism that has plagued the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, monks welcomed recent arrests but seek government action against root causes of the attacks. Ultra-right-wing nationalists in Israel, though a tiny minority, are increasingly attacking Catholic monks with an alarming level of […]
Turkish Court Rules Government Failed to Protect Christians Killed in Malatya
Civil suit results in order to pay damages to relatives of victims.
January 27, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Turkish court ruled on Tuesday (Jan. 26) that the government was negligent in its duty to protect three Christians who were tortured and killed in 2007 and ordered it to pay damages to the victims’ families. The Malatya Administrative Court ruled that, nearly nine years ago, the Interior Ministry […]
Iran Releases U.S.-Iranian Pastor Saeed Abedini in Prisoner Swap
Wife, children excited to see him after more than three years of imprisonment.
January 16, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Iran released U.S.-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini today, more than three years after authorities arrested him on charges of “threatening national security” by planting churches, according to several sources. Abedini was released along with four other prisoners, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, in a prisoner swap, Iran’s official Islamic Republic […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2015
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict.
January 8, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the Islamic State terrorized Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed innocent civilians in the shadow of Boko Haram, in northeast Kenya Al […]
Christmas Celebrations, Turkish Style
Islamic nationalists ‘convert’ Santa Claus.
December 31, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – This holiday season, Christians across Turkey gathered to hold services and celebrate Christmas, even as a small group of protestors “converted” that long-time Christmas mainstay, Santa, to Islam. On Christmas Eve, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Greek Orthodox Church led a divine liturgy at the Church of St. George […]