Swift Trial of Moroccan Christian at Odds with ‘Moderate Morocco’

Convert from Islam reviled for ‘apostasy,’ convicted in one week.

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria, (Morning Star News) – The swift conviction of a Christian for “proselytizing” in Morocco last week shows a harsher reality than the moderate face the country presents to the West, sources said. A court in Taounate, a town in northern Morocco of some 33,000 people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Fez, […]

Algeria Slow in Ruling on Convert’s Appeal of Prison Sentence

Christian faces prison for alleged 'proselytizing,' defaming Islam, Muhammad.

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Nearly nine months since an Algerian court last heard his case, a Christian convert from Islam still awaits a ruling on the appeal of his unusually harsh sentence for allegedly “proselytizing” and defaming Islam and its prophet. Krimo Siaghi (also known as Karim Siaghi) was arrested on April 14, […]

Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World

An antidote to the West's dysfunctional spin on Islam.

(Morning Star News) – Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 million to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian […]

Sudan Tracking Down Converts from Islam in Purge of Christianity

Christian flees country after weeks of threats from authorities.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese Christian has fled the country after authorities in Khartoum threatened to kill him for refusing to divulge names of converts from Islam, sources said. The Christian, a native of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains area, left the country last month after officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service […]

Christians Deported from Morocco Fight to be Reunited with Orphans

Court rules against Village of Hope, reversing ruling that it was a legal entity.

CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Expatriate Christians who ran an orphanage in Morocco until they were deported on charges of proselytism said yesterday they will take their fight to be reunited with the children to the Supreme Court if necessary. An appellate court earlier this month delivered a verbal ruling in favor of the Moroccan […]

Christians in Morocco Fear Fatwa Portends Harsher Treatment

Converts unsettled by call for execution of those who leave Islam.

CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A Moroccan fatwa calling for the execution of those who leave Islam has left many Christian converts in turmoil. There is still much debate over how the fatwa, which only recently came to light after the government’s top authority on Islam issued it last year, could change laws in Morocco. […]

Sudan Intensifies Arrests, Deportations of Christians

Interrogations include threat to bury ministry group members alive.

JUBA, South Sudan, April 30, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Sudan has stepped up its targeting of Christians for deportation, with interrogation including threats to bury them alive, sources said. Besides the deportation to South Sudan of the secretary general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference on April 12, other Christians have been targeted in […]

Bombings in Sudan Kill Christians, Destroy Church Building

Sudanese government continues terrorizing its own citizens.

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government’s bombing of predominantly Christian, ethnic Nuba civilians in South Kordofan state has taken more lives the first three months of this year – possibly including Muslims, sources said. Two civilians were killed and 12 seriously wounded on March 19 when a Sudan government Antonov airplane dropped […]

Torture Likely Led to Death of Egyptian Christian in Libya, Sources Say

Beatings, electrical shock exacerbated serious heart condition.

CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Repeated electrical shock torture of an Egyptian Christian accused of “proselytizing” in Libya likely exacerbated his heart ailment, leading to his death in custody, according to sources close to the deceased.   Ezzat Hakim Atallah died on Sunday (March 10) in a Tripoli jail while in the custody of an […]

Estranged Christian Father Struggles in Harsher, Hard-line Sudan

Convert from Islam whose wife divorced him can now visit children – with caution.

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – Mohammed Khidir Khalil Hassan, a Sudanese convert from Islam, has to be careful what songs he sings to his sons.   Nearly a year ago, after his wife left him and Christianity behind, a Sudanese court had ruled that as a convert from Islam he was forbidden to see his […]