LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Pakistan government’s surrender to demands of an Islamic extremist group jeopardizes the last chances for Christian mother Aasiya Noreen (Asia Bibi) to overturn her death sentence for “blasphemy,” sources said. The government’s inability to withstand the violent protests and demands of the upstart, Muslim extremist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah […]
Government of Pakistan Bows to Islamists on ‘Blasphemy’ Suspects, Critics Say
Last chance for saving Aasiya Noreen (Asia Bibi) put in jeopardy.
December 4, 2017 By -
Christian Family in India Receives Notice to Stop Worship in Their Home
Order comes from senior officials, Hindu nationalists, sources say.
November 30, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – For 12 years Mahendra Nagdeve had met with friends and relatives in his house in Madhya Pradesh state, India to worship Christ until he received this notice from city officials this month: “With effect from the moment you receive this notice, you must not conduct any Christian congregational activity,” the […]
Christians in India Praise God in Spite of Police Brutality, Month in Jail
Officers beat, falsely charge victims of another Hindu extremist attack, Christians say.
November 24, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Six Christians facing false charges, two of them beaten by police, were jailed for a month for praying for a sick woman in eastern India, they said. After tribal Gondi villagers in Simdega District, Jharkhand state, attacked the Christians on Sept. 16, officers at the local police station refused to listen […]
Christians Charged with Serious Crimes after Hindu Extremists, Police Detain Children in India
Christians were making routine, annual train trip to Bible conference.
November 14, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Two Christians face charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion in India after Hindu extremists attacked them and children on their way to a youth Bible conference by train, sources said. The Hindu extremists later savagely beat Christian parents trying to regain custody of their children at a police station, the […]
Hindu Extremists Beat Pastor Unconscious in Southern India after ‘Miraculous’ Conversions
Assailants were masked, but they had threatened him before, he says.
November 5, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Weeks after a pastor led five families to faith in Christ in southern India, masked men on motorbikes intercepted him on his way home from worship and tried to kill him, sources said. Pastor Banothu Sevya, 26, was in a coma for 48 hours after the drunken Hindu extremists beat him […]
Officials, Police in Tamil Nadu State, India Halt Worship in 10 Churches
Hindu extremists compel authorities to act.
November 1, 2017 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Officials and police in Tamil Nadu state, India, have ordered 10 churches to discontinue worship services, sources said. Hindu extremists compelled state officials and police to issue orders to the churches in Coimbatore District to stop worship unless they obtain permission from the collector’s office, and the extremists intend to […]
Torture of Pastor in India Ruins Livelihood, Hearing – but Not His Faith
Hindu extremists pressure police to file false charge against couple, sources say.
October 27, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Uttar Pradesh, India has lost hearing in one ear after Hindu extremists tortured him, pressured police to falsely charge him and prevented doctors from treating him, sources said. Pastor Abhay Sagar, 37, of Biswan town in Sitapur District in the northern state, was about to begin preaching on […]
Christian Teenager in India Arrested for Comments on Fake Facebook, Sources Say
First-year university student charged with posting anti-Hindu comments.
October 16, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A Christian teenager in northern India was jailed for 12 days after anti-Hindu comments appeared on a fake Facebook account in his name, sources said. Sandeep Kumar, 18, christened Karan Anthony, was released on bail 12 days after being arrested on Aug. 23 and charged with posting anti-Hindu comments on […]
Police in Pakistan Beat Christian Boy to Death, Father Says
Muslim classmate tried bullying 14-year-old into renouncing his faith, he says.
October 11, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan beat a 14-year-old Christian boy to death on Monday (Oct. 9) because he had gotten into a fight with a Muslim classmate who tried to bully him into renouncing his faith, sources said. Mushtaq Masih, father of Arsalan Masih, said that his son was a student at […]
Christians in Nepal Sentenced to Prison for Praying for Ill Woman Are Released
Church leaders believe they were set up.
September 22, 2017 By -
(Morning Star News) – Four Christians in Nepal sentenced to five years in prison on false charges of “witchcraft” and “violence” were released today after a high court annulled their convictions, church leaders said. Lali Pun, Bimkali Budha, Suk Lal Pariyar and Ganga Pariyar had been accused in Salyan District Court on May 19, […]