LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Amid the wave of Islamic extremist bombings that have taken place in Iraq in the past week, one aimed at a Christian member of Parliament went largely unnoticed. Catholic news agency Fides News Agency (Agenzia Fides) reports that an apparent suicide attack by car bomb in Kirkuk on Sunday (Sept. […]
Islamic Extremist Violence Persists in Iraq, Nigeria – and Kenya?
Car-bombings, executions continue in two countries as doubts linger about end of siege in Nairobi.
September 24, 2013 By -
Muslim Herdsmen, Soldiers in Nigeria Kill Three Christians, Wound Mother
Latest anti-Christian murders in Plateau state similar to previous attacks.
September 16, 2013 By -
GURA DABWAM, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – In the latest night raids by Muslim herdsmen and soldiers in Plateau state, a Christian and his two teenage sons this month were killed and his wife wounded, Christian leaders said. Ethnic Fulani herdsmen and soldiers on Sept. 3 raided Gura Dabwam village, near Jos in Gyel District, at […]
Muslim Herdsmen Kill Six Christians outside Jos, Nigeria
Guerrilla-style attacks on Christian villages continue.
September 10, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim, ethnic Fulani herdsmen shot five members of a Christian family to death last week, including a 7-year-old boy, and killed another Christian as they fled, relatives said. Alleged cattle theft may have been the pretext for targeting the predominantly Christian agrarian community, but the gunmen struck the family of […]
Armed Muslims in Nigeria Kill Christians in their Homes
Ethnic Fulani herdsmen attack villages on Kaduna/Plateau state border.
September 6, 2013 By -
ADU, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gabriel Anthony, 25, was steeped in quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 1) in this northern Nigerian village when he heard gunshots. “Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,” Anthony told Morning Star News. “I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.” A half […]
Five Christians Killed in Roadside Ambush near Jos, Nigeria
Armed ethnic Fulani herdsmen join forces with Islamic extremist mercenaries, pastor says.
September 1, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As Emmanuel Sunday rode his motorbike near Jos last Thursday evening (Aug. 29), gunmen stopped him and asked him his religion. The 19-year-old technical school student saw a group of people the gunmen had ordered out of a mini-bus; the Christians had been told to lie on the ground. “The […]
Muslim Mob Injures Church Leaders, Choir Members in Nigeria
Minor dispute leads to incitement of gang with iron rods, knives.
August 26, 2013 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob with knives and iron rods injured several members of an Anglican church in Nasarawa state on Aug. 17 over a dispute about less than 1 cent in change, area Christians said. Three pastors, four elders and choir members of the St. James Anglican Cathedral were wounded in […]
Impunity Said to Abet Persecution of Christians in Nigeria
National Christian leader calls Islamic extremist assaults ‘genocide.’
August 23, 2013 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Impunity for terrorists and state-sponsored discrimination against Christians in northern Nigeria has led not to sectarian war but to “genocide,” the general secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) told Morning Star News. Echoing a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) asserting this week that […]
Churches Bombed in Kano, Nigeria, Killing 45 People, Christian Leaders Say
Islamic extremist Boko Haram terrorists suspected.
July 31, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected terrorists from the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group set off four bombs that hit two churches in Kano city on Monday night (July 29), killing at least 45 people, sources said. The Rev. Ramsey Noah, chairman of the Kano state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), told […]
Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World
An antidote to the West's dysfunctional spin on Islam.
July 30, 2013 By -
(Morning Star News) – Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 million to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian […]
Pastor’s Daughter in Nigeria Allegedly Kidnapped, Forced to Convert to Islam
Sharia court in Niger state backs alleged abduction of 24-year-old woman.
July 26, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim leader in central Nigeria has abducted a pastor’s daughter and forced her to convert to Islam with the backing of a sharia (Islamic law) court, the church leader said. Raymond Uzoechina, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abuja, told Morning Star News by phone […]