CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Arrests continue of Christians accused of proselytizing in Libya, with a total of seven now known to be in custody including one reported to have been tortured, sources said. Four expatriate Christians in the eastern coastal town of Benghazi were arrested on Feb. 10, accused of proselytizing. Libya’s Preventative […]
More Arrests in Libya after Detention of Foreign Christians
Egyptian accused of distributing Christian books allegedly tortured.
February 23, 2013 By -
Christian Bookstores Raided, Church Buildings Demolished in Sudan
Authorities confiscate literature, arrest personnel; church leader beaten.
February 22, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Having deported scores of foreign Christians and demolished several church buildings in the past few months, Sudan continued ridding the country of Christianity this week by raiding Christian bookshops in Khartoum and arresting Christians, sources said. Men who described themselves as agents of Khartoum State Security on Monday […]
Algeria Upholds Conviction of Convert from Islam
Christian’s one-year prison term for alleged proselytizing revoked, but fine doubled.
February 13, 2013 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria, February 13, 2013 (Morning Star News) – An Algerian judge under pressure from Islamists to uphold a Christian’s conviction for alleged proselytizing rescinded his one-year prison term today but doubled his fine, an attorney said. Mohamed Ibaouene, 36, was shocked to learn on Dec. 11 that he had been convicted in […]
Algerian Convert Fights Proselytism Verdict
Christian did not know of his conviction; accuser absent from hearing.
January 25, 2013 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – The attorney for a Christian shocked to learn that he had been convicted of pressuring a Muslim to leave Islam said after an appeals hearing on Wednesday (Jan. 23) that the verdict was utterly unfounded. Mohamed Ibaouene, 36, learned on Dec. 11 that he had been convicted in […]
Sudan Cracks Down on South Sudanese Christians
Church building demolished; student imprisoned.
January 10, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities rang in the new year by bulldozing a church building outside Khartoum because it belonged to Christians of South Sudanese origin and lacked a permit, a source said. South Sudanese have been ordered to leave the country following the new republic’s secession from Sudan in July […]
Sudan Bombings Kill More Nuba Christians Around Christmas
Several children dead after aerial attacks.
December 31, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Non-Arab Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains said they feel forgotten after Sudanese air forces killed at least 11 of the faithful in bombings before and after Christmas, according to area sources. Following bombings of non-Arab civilians in Christian villages in Sudan’s South Kordofan state from Dec. 18 to […]
Sudan Arrests Coptic Priests for Baptizing Convert
Woman who left Islam reportedly tries to flee Islamist-run state.
December 28, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudanese authorities have arrested two priests of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan and accused them of baptizing a convert from Islam, sources said. As part of heightened persecution of Christians since South Sudan seceded from Sudan last year, Sudanese security forces on Dec. 16 arrested the Rev. […]
Algerian Christian Unknowingly Convicted, Sentenced
Convert is tried in absentia for ‘pressuring Muslim’ who urged him to return to Islam.
December 21, 2012 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – Without any prior notice or summons from police, a Christian convert from Islam received word on Dec. 11 that he had been convicted of pressuring a Muslim to leave his religion, he said. Mohamed Ibaouene, 36, was convicted in absentia on July 4 by a court in Tigzirt […]
Christians Killed, Church Building Destroyed in Sudan Bombing
Northern regime continues ‘ethnic cleansing’ on its own soil.
November 29, 2012 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese military in the last two weeks has bombed more non-Arab people in largely Christians areas of the Nuba Mountains – killing three Christians, destroying two relief agency structures and demolishing a Catholic Church building, sources said. Dawla Angalo, 60, a member of the Catholic Church in Heiban, […]
Nuba Civilians Bombed in Christian Areas of Sudan
Khartoum said to use South Kordofan unrest for ethnic, religious ‘cleansing.’
November 16, 2012 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government has stepped up bombing of its own non-Arab civilians in Christian areas of Sudan’s South Kordofan state the past month, killing a 1-year-old baby and wounding others, sources said. Since South Sudan split from Sudan in a referendum last year, ethnic Nuba peoples in Sudan’s […]