NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim woman in eastern Uganda this month killed a Christian couple and accidentally took her own daughter’s life with the same poison she used on those who had led her to Christ, sources said. Doreen Nairuba died on March 16 from eating poisoned food prepared by Hanifa Hamiyat in […]
Christian Couple, Woman They Led to Christ Poisoned to Death
Muslim mother in Uganda confesses to accidentally killing her daughter.
Mother of Three in Somalia Loses All Relatives for Receiving Christ
Husband drives her from one home, parents from another.
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim husband of a woman in Somalia sent her back to her parents for accepting Christ – without their three young children – and then her parents drove her away for sharing the gospel with her sister, sources said. Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten and then ostracized by her […]
Christian Found Dead after Kidnapping in Central Nigeria
Suspected herdsmen abduct villagers in Abuja, Kaduna state.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A village head kidnapped along with seven other Christians in central Nigeria was reportedly found dead on Monday (March 17). Yuda Garba, head of predominantly Christian Dnako village in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), had been kidnapped by suspected Fulani herdsmen on March 11. […]
Four Northern States in Nigeria Close All Schools for Ramadan
Christian leaders decry violation of educational, religious rights.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christian leaders decried a decision by Muslim governors of four northern states in Nigeria to close all schools for five weeks for Ramadan. The decision to close all public and private schools in Bauchi, Katsina, Kano and Kebbi states further erodes an already hobbled educational system and threatens […]
Herdsmen Kill One Christian, then Six Others in Nigeria
Herder who stabbed farmer to death returns with other assailants.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Monday (March 10) killed at least six Christian villagers in central Nigeria after stabbing another to death the prior day because he objected to them grazing their cattle on his property, sources said. The assailants who invaded predominantly Christian Farin Dutse village, in Nasarawa state’s […]
Death Sentence Upheld for Christian Defending against Attack
Farmer in Nigeria tried to ward off Fulani herdsmen.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday (March 7) upheld the death sentence for a Christian who defended himself against an attack by Fulani herdsmen. Calling the ruling a “horrendous miscarriage of justice,” attorney and international human rights advocate Emmanuel Ogebe said in a press statement that the […]
Priest Kidnapped and Slain in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Clergyman’s body found on Ash Wednesday.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Catholic priest was kidnapped on Tuesday night (March 4) in Kaduna state, Nigeria where Fulani herdsmen and other Islamic extremist terrorists have been active, and his corpse was found the next day, sources said. The Rev. Sylvester Okechukwu, priest of St. Mary Catholic Church in Tachira, Kaura […]
Christian in Pakistan Beaten, Shaved and Paraded through Village
Little hope for justice seen for humiliated laborer.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim landowners in Pakistan abducted a Christian laborer, shaved his head and facial hair, blackened his face and paraded him on the back of a donkey for allegedly stealing wood from their property, his brother said. On the assumption that impoverished Catholics in Muslim-majority Pakistan have little chance […]
Christian Stabbed in Attack on Evangelists in Uganda
Hardline Muslims also tear up their Bibles.
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda on Feb. 15 beat and stabbed an evangelist after he and his team led a Muslim widow to Christ during open-air gospel preaching, sources said. Robert Kasozi, a 39-year-old evangelist also known as Mulokole, was stabbed in the stomach, and three co-workers also were beaten […]
Fulani Attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria Kill 11 Christians
Four others kidnapped.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a Christian and kidnapped four others in Plateau state, Nigeria, on Feb. 1 after massacring more than 10 others Jan. 27-31 in the same state, sources said. Fulani herdsmen attacked Shendai village in Namu District, Qua’an Pan County at about 9 p.m. on Feb. 1, said […]