LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslims in a town in Pakistan’s Punjab Province who seized a church property have disrupted a prayer meeting at a private residence, sources said. After police arranged a reconciliation meeting between the Muslims and members of the congregation in Sialkot District on Jan. 4, the Muslims instead armed themselves with […]
Muslims in Pakistan Disrupt Christians’ Worship, Storm Homes
Police decline to arrest Muslims after attacks, seizure of church building.
January 14, 2016 By -
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2015
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict.
January 8, 2016 By -
(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the Islamic State terrorized Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed innocent civilians in the shadow of Boko Haram, in northeast Kenya Al […]
Police Break Spine of One Christian, Nose of Another in Tamil Nadu, India
Ministry workers disparaged for their faith, severely beaten.
December 23, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police hostility toward Christians continued this year as officers in Tamil Nadu, India reviled two Christians for their faith and seriously injured them, sources said. The two Christians, A. Rethinakumar and C. Nova of Jesus Redeems Ministry, were traveling by motorcycle in Thomas Nagar on Nov. 3 at about 2:30 […]
Christian Slum Dwellers Fight Eviction in Islamabad, Pakistan
Government statement to Supreme Court reflects deep prejudice, critics say.
December 9, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Yaqub Masih is one of thousands of impoverished Christians facing demolition of his makeshift home in Islamabad after a government agency last week stated that informal slum settlements of Christian migrants threatened the city’s Muslim-majority demographic. “It is one thing being poor, but things are far worse if you are […]
Police in Pakistan Downplay Signs of Arson in Fire at Christian TV Station
Islamist threats, broken locks, witness statements discounted.
November 29, 2015 By -
KARACHI, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police are downplaying several signs pointing to arson in a fire reported at 3 a.m. on Tuesday (Nov. 24) at the office of a Christian cable TV station in Karachi, sources said. Gawahi Television chief Sarfraz William said the fire at the popular Christian channel’s office in Akhtar Colony was […]
Court in Pakistan Acquits Muslims Accused of Raping Two Christian Girls
Prosecution absent, key witness bribed, sources say.
October 31, 2015 By -
LONDON (Morning Star News) – Two Muslim men who raped two Christian sisters in Pakistan last year have been acquitted after Islamists pressured a key witness not to testify and a prosecutor failed to show up in court, family and legal sources said. The two teenaged girls (names withheld) had gone to a toilet in a […]
Police Set Up Christian in Pakistan with False Blasphemy Charge, Sources Say
In separate incident, Muslim teachers assault Christian headmaster.
October 22, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police have filed a false blasphemy charge against a Christian in Sargodha after he refused their requests for money, a relative said. In a separate incident also in Punjab Province, Muslim high school teachers assaulted a Christian headmaster because he had been promoted over them and refused to comply with […]
Pastor in Bangladesh Describes Attempt to Slit His Throat
Member of violent Islamist group suspected.
October 11, 2015 By -
DHAKA, Bangladesh (Morning Star News) – Two of the three suspected Muslim extremists who tried to cut the throat of a pastor in northwestern Bangladesh last week met with him in mid-September and feigned interest in converting, the church leader told Morning Star News. Luke Sarker, the 52-year-old pastor of Faith Bible Church in Ishwardi, Pabna […]
Supreme Court Ruling Said to Signal Positive Change in Pakistan
Upholding of death sentence for killer of critic of blasphemy laws a ‘strong sign,’ advocates say.
October 9, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Supreme Court decision to uphold the death sentence for an Islamist who killed Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer because of his objections to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws signals government resolve against Islamic extremism, human rights advocates said. The high court on Wednesday (Oct. 7) upheld the October 2011 death sentence for […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious in Madhya Pradesh, India
Hindu extremists continue to use ‘anti-conversion’ law to jail victims of attacks.
October 5, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Madhya Pradesh state is recovering after Hindu extremists last month beat him unconscious and left him in a pool of blood, sources said. About 20 Hindu extremists in Fattiguda, Jhabua on Sept. 10 kicked, punched and beat with a club pastor Ajmer Singh Damor of Shalom Church, […]