PALLISA, Uganda (Morning Star News) – The widow of a Christian shot to death by suspected hard-line Muslims in eastern Uganda fears for her life after receiving several death threats, she said. Agnes Nasubuga Nura, 28, said Muslim extremists killed her husband, Richard Lebon Suleiman, on Feb. 15 in Budaka, Pallisa District, 193 kilometers (119 miles) east […]
Widow of Slain Christian in Uganda Fears for Her Life
Hard-line Muslims send her death threats on mobile phone.
June 2, 2015 By -
Boko Haram Suspected in Killing of at Least 29 People, Most Christians, in Nigeria
Three attacks in 10 days after terrorists lose territory in northeast.
May 26, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist attacks in Nigeria’s Adamawa state in the past 10 days have killed at least 29 people after weeks of Boko Haram rebels losing ground to government forces in the northeast, sources said. Suspected Boko Haram members on Friday (May 22) slaughtered 10 Christians with machetes in Pambula-Kwamda, a Christian community […]
Pastor, More than 70 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen burn homes, church buildings.
May 14, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen killed a church pastor and more than 70 other Christians in Plateau state in the past month, sources said. Setting fire to church buildings and houses in attacks that continued this week, Fulani Muslim herdsmen on May 2 killed the Rev. Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ in […]
Islamic State Warns Those Who Refuse Islam Will Die like Ethiopians in Libya Video
Militant asserts that persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam.
April 24, 2015 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In a video showing the cruel execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians, the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS) says persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam. In the video released late Sunday night (April 19), IS (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) warns that if Christians in […]
Christian Girl in Uganda Seriously Injured, Traumatized after Gang-Rape, Father Says
Muslim assailants had warned father to close church he pastors, he says.
April 14, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Five Muslims in eastern Uganda gang-raped the 17-year-old daughter of a pastor because the church leader ignored their warnings that he stop worship services, she said. The daughter (name withheld) of the pastor of New Hope Church was approaching the church building at Kiryolo, Kaderuna Sub-County, Budaka District, at about […]
Shocked Kenyans Grieve Worst Islamic Extremist Assault since 1998
Survivors relate horrific details of onslaught by Al Shabaab.
April 8, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – As Kenya comes to grips with the worst attack on its soil since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, survivors revealed grim details of last week’s Islamic extremist assault. Separating out Christian students from Muslims, members of Somalia’s rebel Al Shabaab killed 148 people on Thursday (April […]
Al Shabaab Gunmen Target Christians in Attack on University in Kenya
At least 147 dead, 79 wounded.
April 2, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya – Islamic extremists from Somalia-based Al Shabaab today targeted Christians in an attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya, killing at least 147 people, including two policemen. An area church leader who visited some of the more than 79 wounded people in a hospital told Morning Star News that patients said members of […]
Five Christians Killed, One Critically Wounded, by Islamic Extremists in Kenya
Al Shabaab takes responsibility for shootings.
March 23, 2015 By -
MANDERA, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia took responsibility for killing four Christians on Tuesday (March 17) and another on March 15 in northeastern Kenya. Somali rebel Al Shabaab militiamen or their Somali sympathizers have carried out several attacks on Kenyan soil the past two years, usually separating out Christians and executing them, […]
Two Christians Attacked, Church Building Burned in Coastal Kenya
Siblings assaulted in village where their father was slain last year.
March 19, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two siblings in their mid-20s were attacked and a church building burned last month in an area of Kenya where Islamic extremists killed at least 13 people last July – including the siblings’ father. Somalis in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County struck 25-year-old Annah after she answered their knock on the […]
Christian Girl in Uganda Who Fled Beating by Muslim Uncle Mysteriously Dies
Muslim relatives in search of convert arrive at her hospital day before her death.
March 12, 2015 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 12, 2015 (Morning Star News) – A 16-year-old girl in Uganda who fled from a Muslim uncle who beat her for becoming a Christian mysteriously died on Sunday (March 8) after relatives searching for her discovered her whereabouts the previous day. Namwase Aisha died at 5:30 p.m. at Iganga Hospital in eastern […]