NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A relative at the burial of a Christian mother of three who died in detention in Eritrea told Morning Star News her body showed signs of torture that could have contributed to her death. Eritrean authorities arrested Fikadu Debesay and her husband in the southern town of Adi Quala as […]
Christian Mother Who Died in Detention in Eritrea Showed Signs of Torture, Mourners Note
Maltreatment may have contributed to her death, relative says.
August 25, 2017 By -
Herdsmen in Plateau State, Nigeria Quietly Seizing Christians’ Property, Pastors Say
Church leaders call Muslim Fulani land-grabs ‘economic terrorism.’
August 14, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacks on predominantly Christian Berom farmers in Plateau state, Nigeria amount to “economic terrorism,” Christian leaders told Morning Star News. While Plateau state officials say “relative peace” prevails, Christian leaders point to herdsmen attacks in the past eight months that saw 18 Christians injured and two villages […]
Kidnapped Pastor in Nigeria Released from Five Days of Captivity
Church leaders release sharply worded statement about police, government.
August 9, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspecting corrupt police and accusing the Nigerian government of failing to contain a rash of kidnappings, Christian leaders announced that a pastor abducted last week was freed on Wednesday (Aug. 9). The Rev. Jen Tivkaa Moses, kidnapped by young Fulani men on Friday (Aug. 4) on the highway from Jos […]
Fulani Herdsmen Kidnap Pastor in Plateau State, Central Nigeria
Wounded, released driver relates ordeal.
August 8, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Aug. 4) kidnapped a pastor as he and his driver were traveling in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the wounded driver told Morning Star News. The Rev. Jen Tivkaa Moses and his driver, Yohanna Maina, were on their way to Abuja from Jos to attend a […]
Christians Killed, Injured in Church Shooting in Southern Nigeria
Motive for attack unclear.
August 6, 2017 By -
JOS, NIGERIA (Morning Star News) – At least 11 people were killed in an attack on a Catholic church service in southern Nigeria today that apparently was rooted in a conflict with a relative of one of the parishioners, authorities said. At least 18 others were injured in the shooting at St. Philip’s Catholic Church in […]
Church in Zanzibar, Tanzania Shaken as Court Supports Muslims’ Opposition to Building
Christian leaders see Islamist bias in ruling.
July 26, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A court on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, ruled on Thursday (July 20) that a church cannot continue constructing a worship building it has tried to finish for eight years, sources said. Hard-line Muslims outside Zanzibar City have been fighting construction of the Pentecostal Assemblies […]
Christian Student Killed in Spate of Boko Haram Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
Student ministry quarters targeted.
July 20, 2017 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Among several Boko Haram bombings that have put northeastern Nigeria on edge this year was a suicide attack on Christian student organization quarters that killed a Christian student, sources said. Ambore Gideon Todi, a 21-year-old student at the University of Maiduguri in Borno state, was staying in the Evangelical Church […]
Christians in Coastal Kenya Fearful after Slaughter of 13 Non-Muslims
Area Muslims collude with Al Shabaab militants.
July 12, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militia over the weekend killed 13 non-Muslims, mostly Christians, in coastal Kenya, sources said. Village Muslims in the Pandanguo settlement of Lamu County helped Islamic extremists from the Somalia-based Al Shabaab identify locations where the Christians resided, a survivor of the attack told Morning Star News from […]
Christian Teacher Killed, another Abducted along with Muslim in Northeastern Kenya
Al Shabaab militants suspected.
June 14, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected Al Shabaab militants walked into an elementary school compound in northeastern Kenya on May 31 and shot a Christian teacher to death, sources said. Elly Oloo Ojiema was shot at Fafi Primary School in Fafi, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Garissa. “The suspected Al Shabaab militants entered the […]
Christian Killed in Islamic Extremist Attack in Northeastern Kenya
Suspected Al Shabaab rebels shoot two people to death.
May 19, 2017 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militants are suspected in the killing of two people, at least one a Christian, in a May 12 gun attack in northeastern Kenya, sources said. Five suspected rebels from the Somali Islamic extremist group targeted non-Muslim quarry workers in El Wak, near the Somali border in Kenya’s North […]