JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Air Force bomb on Monday (May 25) killed a 3-year-old girl and wounded her Christian mother at their home in Kauda, South Kordofan state, sources said. In the latest civilian death in nearly 3,500 government bombings of civilian targets since April 2012, Kaka Abdu Kuku Tiral died […]
Sudan’s Aerial Bombing Kills 3-Year-Old Girl, Wounds Mother in Nuba Mountains
Two others injured, church compound damaged.
May 28, 2015 By -
South Sudanese Church Leaders Jailed in Sudan Charged, Could Face Death Penalty
Pastor says he is trusting God will intervene on their behalf.
May 8, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have charged two South Sudanese pastors under laws that call for the death penalty, their attorney said. National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officials have charged the Rev. Yat Michael and the Rev. Peter Yein Reith (also transliterated as Peter Yen Reith) with undermining the constitutional system […]
Young Sudanese Refugee Cast Out of Home for Leaving Islam
Convert experiences power of God amid uncertainty, instability.
May 4, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – First an 18-year-old Sudanese Muslim became a refugee from Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state; then he received Christ and became a refugee from his family. Kuku (full name withheld) and his family, ethnic Nuba from the Kauda area, arrived at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan in 2011, shortly […]
Islamic State Warns Those Who Refuse Islam Will Die like Ethiopians in Libya Video
Militant asserts that persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam.
April 24, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In a video showing the cruel execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians, the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS) says persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam. In the video released late Sunday night (April 19), IS (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) warns that if Christians in […]
Pastor in South Sudan Jailed, Lashed after Radical Muslims Threaten Him
Convert from Islam, native of West Darfur, was planting church.
March 27, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese pastor in South Sudan was jailed and tortured for more than three months after Islamists who tried to kill him accused him of being a spy, sources said. Adam Haron, a 37-year-old convert from Islam and a native of West Darfur, Sudan, said Muslim extremists called him on […]
Sudan Helps Muslim Investors Take Over Last Piece of Church Land
Months of harassment culminate in deprivation of congregation’s ministry property.
February 18, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government today helped Muslim investors take over the remaining property of Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church in Khartoum North, church leaders said. Riot police on two trucks arrived at the church property at noon and assisted in the seizure of the land by force. “Over the past year […]
Egypt in Mourning as It Bombs Libyan Terrorist Targets after Beheading of Copts
Battle against Islamic State expands to Libya; U.S. help sought.
February 16, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – After months of indifference to Islamist militants killing Egyptian Christians in Libya, Egypt bombed Islamic extremist targets in Libya and declared seven days of mourning following the beheading of 21 Copts. Video released on Sunday (Feb. 15) under the logo of the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly […]
Sudanese Air Force Bomb Kills Pregnant Christian Mother in Nuba Mountains, Sudan
In Khartoum, another Christian-owned building confiscated.
February 12, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan’s bombing of a civilian area in the Nuba Mountains on Friday (Feb. 6) killed a Christian woman who was nine months pregnant, a relative said. Naheed Saeed Komi, a 25-year-old mother of a 3-year-old boy, was walking from her home in Tangali village, Dalami County in South Kordofan […]
Sudan Arrests Another South Sudanese Pastor
Second church leader in less than three weeks held without charges.
January 20, 2015 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The second pastor of South Sudanese descent in less than three weeks has been arrested without charges in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, sources said. Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Peter Yein Reith of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church on Jan. 11 as he […]
ISIS-Related Group Claims Responsibility for Egyptians Still Held in Libya
Photos confirm identity of 13 Copts kidnapped on Jan. 3 and seven others.
January 14, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Contrary to published reports, 13 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya by Islamic terrorists have not been freed, relatives said. A Libyan group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the Jan. 3 kidnapping of the 13 Copts from a housing complex in Sirte, Libya, […]