JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Christian has been jailed in Khartoum, Sudan for declining to leave the country after authorities revoked his Sudanese citizenship, sources said. Early this year National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) personnel had required Zawengel Abraham Mikael, a 41-year-old deacon of Eritrean descent, to frequently report to their offices […]
Sudan Revokes Citizenship of Christian, Jails Him for Failing to Leave Country
Deacon of Eritrean descent targeted for Christian activities.
December 9, 2013 By -
Bombing of Civilians in Sudan Seen as Ethnic, Religious ‘Cleansing’
Two children killed.
November 25, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – In what Christians see as a government effort to rid the country of Christianity and ethnic Nuba people, the Sudanese Air Force has stepped up bombings of civilians in South Kordofan in the past two months, including an attack on Nov. 17 that killed two children. Sudan dropped two […]
Sudan Accused of Helping Muslim Businessman Seize Property from Church
Police, security personnel aid investor's claim.
October 30, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – After months of bulldozing or taking over church buildings on the pretext that they belong to South Sudanese who are no longer citizens of the country, authorities are aiding a Muslim businessman’s effort to take over church property in Khartoum North, sources said. Sudan’s police and security forces broke […]
Appeal Postponed for Moroccan Convert from Islam Sentenced for ‘Proselytizing’
Court hoping publicity over Christian convicted without due process will subside, sources say.
October 11, 2013 By -
TIZI OZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A Moroccan court yesterday postponed until Dec. 31 an appeals hearing for a convert hastily sentenced to prison for alleged “proselytizing,” in hopes that international publicity over his conviction will subside by then, Christian sources said. Mohamed El Baladi was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Sept. 3, […]
Two Egyptian Christians Slain in Libya
Orthodox Copts refused Muslims’ demand to convert to Islam, relatives say.
September 30, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A group of Muslims robbed two Egyptian Christians living in Libya, then tied up and shot them to death after the two Copts refused their demand to convert to Islam, relatives said. On a rural road in Derna District in northeastern Libya on Wednesday (Sept. 25), a group of Muslims […]
Sudanese Woman Faces Ordeal as Convert from Islam
Long before current crackdown in Sudan, Muslim society punished ‘apostates.’
September 20, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – After her family in Khartoum, Sudan nearly buried her alive for leaving Islam and authorities imprisoned her for six months, a Sudanese Christian thought she might find refuge in Ethiopia. She had fled to Ethiopia in 2010, five years after putting her faith in Christ. By the following year, […]
Swift Trial of Moroccan Christian at Odds with ‘Moderate Morocco’
Convert from Islam reviled for ‘apostasy,’ convicted in one week.
September 13, 2013 By -
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.
August 7, 2013 By -
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.
July 30, 2013 By -
(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.
July 12, 2013 By -
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 […]