(Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist violence in countries not known for religious tensions, majority-Christian Kenya and Uganda, topped Morning Star News’ stories in 2015. While the Islamic State terrorized Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya, and Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria killed innocent civilians in the shadow of Boko Haram, in northeast Kenya Al […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2015
Islamic violence accelerates in countries not known for religious conflict.
January 8, 2016 By -
Ban on Christmas in Somalia Darkens Season for Secret Christians
Government asserts all Somalis are Muslims.
January 6, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Secret Christians in Somalia were not surprised by a sudden government ban on Christmas celebrations, but it did darken their plans, Christian leaders said. The government on Dec. 22 announced a ban on Christmas and New Year’s Day celebrations, with Mohamed Khayrow, director general of Somalia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs, […]
Non-Muslims Targeted in Islamic Extremist Attacks in Mandera, Kenya
Two Christians killed, others injured in assaults in northeast, coast.
January 3, 2016 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An attack on a bus and a truck in Kenya by Islamic extremists from Somalia’s Al Shabaab insurgency took two Christian lives in December. In the attack on a bus with more than 100 passengers in Kenya’s northeast on Dec. 21, the Al Shabaab rebels tried to separate Christians from […]
Pastor Hacked to Death, Bible Study Members Poisoned in Eastern Uganda
Four family members, pregnant neighbor die after eating tainted food.
December 25, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over their land, area church leaders said. In Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namutumba District, Muslims erected a boundary fence with poles and barbed […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill 15 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria
Gunmen’s victims include children ages 1, 3 and 5.
December 21, 2015 By -
HWAK KWATA-ZAWAN, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Dec. 13 attacked two households and a compound of displaced people in this village near Jos, killing 15 Christians, including two small children. The attack at about 8:30 p.m. on the two homes and the compound housing Christians displaced by a previous attack in Bachi, […]
Muslim Extremists in Eastern Uganda Kill Christian Policeman, Kidnap Three Children
Bloodshed continues for converts in heavily Islamic region.
December 14, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda on Tuesday (Dec. 8) set a deadly trap for a Christian policeman who had left Islam, and the next day other hard-line Muslims kidnapped three children from another convert in a nearby village, sources said. More than 20 Muslim extremists in the Komodo area of […]
Muslim Who Attacked Ministry Building in Nigeria Attempts to Seize Property
Pastor’s wife, students inside as demolition began.
December 7, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in central Nigeria who destroyed part of a ministry facility, upsetting students inside, has filed suit to seize the property, a ministry leader said. Facing a charge of criminal trespass for the partial demolition of the facility in September, Mohammed Uduans has filed a civil suit against Segun […]
Suspected Hard-line Muslims in Eastern Uganda Kill Christian in Sword Attack
Father of five supported 10 children abandoned for leaving Islam.
December 4, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of five in eastern Uganda who supported 10 children whose families had disowned them for leaving Islam was killed on Wednesday night (Dec. 2). One of three men who attacked Patrick Ojangole at 9:30 p.m. reproached him for failing to heed a warning to cease his Christian […]
Armed Muslims Take Wife, Children from Christian in Kenya
Also in coastal region further south, two church buildings gutted.
November 20, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A secret Christian in coastal Kenya escaped Muslim in-laws who last week sought to stab him and took his wife and children, less than two weeks after Islamic extremists further south torched two church buildings, sources said. Former Muslim Hassan Ali said he narrowly escaped death when Muslim neighbors and […]
Young Woman in Uganda Beaten, Disowned for Putting Faith in Christ
Father persuaded not to kill her.
November 15, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The father of a young Muslim woman in east Uganda on Thursday (Nov. 12) tried to beat her to death after she became a Christian, but community leaders intervened and limited him to disowning her, sources said. Kibida Muyemba learned that his 21-year-old daughter, Namusisi Birye, had put her faith […]