(Morning Star News) – The Islamic State (IS) has taken responsibility for gunning down the Italian program manager of a Christian-backed aid group on Monday (Sept. 28) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An online statement claiming to be from the Islamic extremist IS said a “security detachment” from the terrorist organization had followed Cesare Tavella of the […]
Aid Worker Assassinated in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Islamic State claims responsibility for killing.
September 29, 2015 By -
Christians in Jharkhand, India Attacked with Axes, Clubs
Armed Hindu extremists threaten death for declining to renounce Christ.
September 15, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – An attack on a prayer meeting in Jharkhand state that sent six people to the hospital on Sept. 4 began when Hindu women entered the home where it was held and began insulting Christians, sources said. By the end of the day, Hindu extremists with guns, axes, spades and clubs […]
Police Hasty, Brutal in Arrest of Christian Accused of Blasphemy in Pakistan
Business rivals stir up Muslim mob against impoverished kiln worker.
September 4, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Authorities this week charged and jailed a Christian accused of blasphemy by Muslim business competitors, and police beat area Christians in their search for him, sources said. Jamshed Masih told Morning Star News that local Muslims had entrapped his brother, 35-year-old Pervaiz Masih, in a false blasphemy case after he […]
Death Threats, Forced Conversions of Christians Cited in India
Hostilities continue through long, hot summer under new prime minister.
August 28, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Heightened hostilities against Christians in India that began late last year continued through a hot summer, with Hindu extremists threatening Christians and forcing them to “reconvert” to Hindusim, church leaders said. In Rajasthan in the northwest, 10 Christian families in Nakhnool village, near Alwar, have fled after intolerant Hindus harassed and […]
Christian in Pakistan Killed, Wife Shot by Muslim Relatives, Attorney Says
Elsewhere, three Christians accused of blasphemy for using Urdu word for ‘apostle.’
August 26, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Islamist groups are threatening the family and attorney of a young Christian man shot dead by Muslim in-laws who also wounded his wife over her decision to marry him and leave Islam, the attorney said. Aleem Masih, 28, married Nadia, 23, last year after she put her faith in Christ. […]
Police Complicit in Attack on Christians in West Delhi, India, Sources Say
Officers intervene only after Christians ‘beaten enough,’ pastor says.
July 29, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After watching idly as a mob of Hindu extremists dragged Christians from a prayer meeting in West Delhi and beat them, police questioned those who were attacked as if they were guilty of fraudulent conversion, sources said. A mob said to be members of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh […]
Supreme Court of Pakistan Agrees to Hear Appeal of Christian Mother on Death Row
Execution of Asia Bibi suspended until final ruling.
July 22, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court today agreed to review the case of a Christian mother sentenced to death on a blasphemy charge, temporarily suspending her execution. Aasiya Noreen, commonly known as Asia Bibi, is the first woman to be sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court […]
Hindu Extremists Instigate Tribal People against Christians in Jharkhand, India
Five families and pastor threatened, banished.
July 11, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christian families driven from their village in India’s Jharkhand state have returned home with police help, but tribal people instigated by Hindu extremists are still bent on expelling them, sources said. Hindu extremists last month mobilized tribal groups to banish the Christian families from Kullu village in Chanho Block, Ranchi […]
Catholic Educator Flees Pakistan amid ‘Hate Campaign’ by Islamic Extremists
Separately, judge upholds expulsion of Filipino nuns.
July 6, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan, July 6, 2015 (Morning Star News) – In two cases raising the specter of religious profiling, Islamic extremist threats have forced a leading Catholic educator to flee Pakistan, and a judge has upheld the controversial expulsion of three Filipino nuns. Bernadette L. Dean, an educator on Sindh Province’s committee for curriculum and textbook […]
Islamic Cleric in Pakistan Arrested in Mob Attack on Christians Accused of Blasphemy
Rare instance of police intervention saves couple.
July 5, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In a rare move by Pakistani police, an Islamist cleric was taken into custody on Friday (July 3) for inciting a Muslim mob to try to kill a Christian couple for alleged desecration of the Koran, a police official said. Area residents and rights activists told Morning Star News that hundreds […]