ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Police and a banned Islamic extremist group in Lahore, Pakistan are searching for a young Christian accused of blasphemy – with the extremist group calling for his death – after he sought to correct misconceptions about Christianity in a Muslim book, sources said. Sources close to Adnan Masih, 26, said he […]
Police, Islamic Extremists in Pakistan Hunt for Christian Accused of ‘Blasphemy’
Young evangelist in hiding denies charges, sources say.
October 25, 2013 By -
Muslims in Pakistan Arrested on Forcible Conversion Charges
Assailants in Islamabad beat three Christians, shoot at house, police say.
October 24, 2013 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News ) – Police in Islamabad have arrested three Muslims for pistol-whipping a Christian and his teenage nephews after they refused to convert to Islam, sources said. The assailants in an Islamabad suburb allegedly have links to a banned Islamic extremist group. The primary suspect, Muhammad Nadeem, and others approached a […]
Conviction of Christians for Murder of Hindu Leader in India Biased, Unfounded: Attorneys
Evidence insufficient for conviction of seven sentenced to life in prison.
October 17, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The sentencing of seven Christians this month to life in prison for the murder that triggered anti-Christian riots in India’s Orissa state resulted from a biased and unfounded conviction, Christian attorneys and leaders said. Maoists have twice claimed responsibility for the Aug. 23, 2008 murder of Hindu leader Laxmanananda Saraswati […]
Police in India Rebuke, Threaten Pastor for Reporting Vicious Beating
Hindu extremists knock Bible student unconscious three times.
October 15, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Police in Chhattisgarh state last week chastised and threatened a pastor when he reported that Hindu extremists beat a Bible student unconscious, area Christians said. After drunken Hindu extremists beat 23-year-old Shyam Sunder unconscious with a plow head three times – twice reviving him with water and continuing the beating […]
Persecution News, One Year Later
Shining light amid vast darkness.
September 30, 2013 By -
Today, Sept. 30, marks one year since Morning Star News began distributing news of Christians persecuted for their faith. We had planned to debut the only independent news service exclusively covering persecution of Christians on Oct. 1, 2012, but when a grenade blast at a church in Nairobi, Kenya killed a 9-year-old boy and injured […]
Persecution of Christians Rockets in Karnataka, India
Hindu extremists drag woman to temple in effort to ‘reconvert’ her.
September 30, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Incidents of violence against Christians in India’s Karnataka state have spiked since June, including hospitalization of a school helper this month after Hindu extremists beat her and marched her through the streets. Hindu extremists kicked and punched the 50-year-old Christian woman, who goes by the single name of Sannamma, after […]
Buddhist Nationalism Fuels Attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka
Seeking approval from majority, government winks at aggression against minorities.
September 26, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Persecution of Christians is rising in Sri Lanka, where at least three attacks took place this month as the government promoted Buddhist nationalism to maintain its hold on power. The Buddhist-majority South Asian country has seen a surge of violence against religious minorities, including Christians and Muslims, while the government […]
Islamic Extremists Bomb Church in Pakistan, Attack Shopping Mall in Kenya
Scale of attack in Peshawar unprecedented; non-Muslims targeted in Nairobi.
September 22, 2013 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists today killed at least 78 people in an unprecedented church bombing in Pakistan, a day after Muslim militants in Kenya targeted non-Muslims in a mall attack that left at least 68 dead. Believed to be the deadliest assault on Christians in Pakistan, two suicide bombers struck All Saints […]
Pakistani Muslim Cites ‘Blasphemy’ in Slaughter of Christian Rival in Business
Witnesses decline to come forward, fearing retribution.
September 19, 2013 By -
KARACHI, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Shouting that he was killing “an infidel who blasphemed against Muhammad,” a Muslim in Karachi on Saturday (Sept. 14) slit a Christian’s throat as police and others looked on, according to the slain man’s son. George Masih told Morning Star News that his father, 58-year-old Boota Masih, worked as a […]
Assassins of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti Confess, Officials Say
Leader of Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban captured with two others.
September 17, 2013 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The killers of Pakistan’s first Christian to become a federal cabinet member, Shahbaz Bhatti, have confessed to the crime, Bhatti’s brother and security sources said. Paul Bhatti, brother of the slain Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, told Morning Star News that security officials and a senior government minister had told […]