LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of two in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam’s prophet in a phone text even though he is illiterate, sources said. Nadeem James, 27, was charged in July 2016 in Gujrat District after a friend, Yasir Bashir, complained to police that he received a […]
Christian Father of Two in Pakistan Sentenced to Death for ‘Blaspheming’ Prophet of Islam
Muslim accuser had personal conflict with him, attorney says.
September 18, 2017 By -
Christian High School Student Killed in Pakistan
Muslim classmates apparently covering up religious motive.
September 8, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The father of a 17-year-old Christian who was killed in a school in Pakistan by at least one Muslim classmate said the attack was religiously motivated, a charge that police dispute. Ilyasab Masih told Morning Star News by phone from his home in Chak 461 village, Vehari District in Punjab […]
Pastor in India Perseveres amid Persecution by Hindu Extremists
Assailants demand he renounce Christ for savage beating to end.
August 31, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A band of Hindu extremists who had snuck into a house-church service beat a pastor with steel rods and sticks, one of them yelling that they would stop if he shouted, “Hail, Lord Ram [Jai Sri Ram]!” “I remained mum,” pastor Harjot Singh Sethi, 26, told Morning Star News. “I […]
Another Teenage Christian in Pakistan Beaten, Accused of Blasphemy
Muslim mob continues thrashing him at police check-post.
August 22, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob in rural Punjab Province, Pakistan stormed a police station to continue beating a 16-year-old Christian boy accused of blaspheming the Koran, sources said. Asif Masih, illiterate and mildly mentally challenged according to his father, was so badly beaten by the mob in Punjab Province’s Gujranwala District on […]
Judge in Pakistan Urges Parliament to Prosecute Blasphemy Cases under Terrorism Laws
Constitutionality questioned.
August 18, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In an expanded order to remove “blasphemous” content from social media in Pakistan, a high court judge included a recommendation that Parliament include terrorism charges against those accused of blasphemy. Last Saturday’s (Aug. 12) recommendation by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court is unlikely to result in […]
Pastors in India Put Trust in God amid Persecution
Jailed, beaten church leaders keep their sights upward.
August 16, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – As two Hindu extremists gripped his hands while others beat him last week in northern India, Pastor Amar Stephen was asking God to forgive them. “Some attackers were holding both my hands so I couldn’t move, while others in the mob beat me,” he told Morning Star News. “At that […]
Police Disingenuous in Hindu Extremist Assault on Pastors in Tamil Nadu, India, Sources Say
Officers arrest non-Hindu to hide religious motive for attack, sources say.
August 1, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus used steel rods and a butcher’s knife to attack a father-son pastoral team in Tamil Nadu state, India, injuring the brain tissue of the elder clergyman, sources said. In Thyagaraja Nagar, in the Sirkali area of Nagapattinam District, 28-year-old pastor Daniel Jebraj was returning home on July 19 […]
Calling Worship ‘Unlawful Assembly,’ Police in Uttar Pradesh, India, Arrest Six Christians
Officers verbally, physically harass congregation.
July 24, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Berating and slapping a pastor for reading the Bible instead of Hindu texts, police in Uttar Pradesh state, India last month detained six Christians under “unlawful assembly” laws for worshiping together, sources said. After traveling from Etah village to a church in nearby Pujaripurvah, the six Christians were detained for […]
Pastor in Punjab State, India Shot Dead
Hindu extremists suspected..
July 17, 2017 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A pastor in northern India’s Punjab state was shot dead in front of his church premises two months after Hindu extremists took offense at a gospel event celebrating his church’s 25th anniversary, sources said. Pastor Sultan Masih of Temple of God was found shot dead at Peer Banda Mohalla in the […]
Islamists in Pakistan Accuse Christian Minor of Blaspheming Islam’s Prophet
No motive given for alleged comment.
July 17, 2017 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A member of an Islamic extremist group in Pakistan has accused a Christian minor of blasphemy after the boy had an argument with a Muslim, sources said. Hina Shafaqat, mother of 17-year-old Shahzad Masih, told Morning Star News that her son had been wrongly implicated in the case by a […]