JOS, NIGERIA (Morning Star News) – Gunmen who killed four family members in their home in Plateau state this month, including 2-year-old and 4-year-old boys, were likely Muslim herdsmen, church leaders said. In Rantis village, 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Jos, the suspected ethnic Fulani Muslims launched a guerilla attack on a home at about […]
Two Small Children among Four Christians Slain in Plateau State, Nigeria
Ethnic Fulani herdsmen again suspected.
November 14, 2013 By -
Boko Haram Violence Cripples Christianity in Areas of Nigeria’s Borno State
Thousands flee attacks; public worship impossible for some who remain.
November 6, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist Boko Haram insurgents have driven thousands of Christians from areas of Borno state, with some of those remaining unable to hold worship services, church leaders said. Boko Haram attacks that killed at least 150 members of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, or […]
Two Pastors Killed in Kenya’s Coastal Area
Christian leaders, already on edge, grow more fearful.
October 22, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Christians at Vikwantani Redeemed Gospel Church in Mombasa, Kenya arrived for worship Sunday morning (Oct. 20) only to learn that their pastor had been shot to death in their building the night before. Those attending the service began to weep as a church member described what he and others found […]
Officials in Nigeria Portray Slaughter of Christian Family as Result of ‘Cattle Theft’
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill three generations in their home.
October 17, 2013 By -
BAKIN KOGI FORON, Nigeria, October 17, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians in three villages in this area in Plateau state last week in what authorities called a cattle-rustling attempt, but a visit to the home where eight members of one family were killed revealed the presence of no cows. […]
Links with Jihadists from Somalia Increasingly Bring Battle to Kenyan Soil
Religious tensions mount in Kenya as church building is burned
October 7, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya, (Morning Star News) – Two weeks after Somalia-based Islamic extremists attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenya saw another pocket of its territory turned into a battle zone on Friday (Oct. 4). Responding to the shooting death on Thursday night (Oct. 3) of hard-line sheikh Ibrahim Omar and three others, Muslim youths from the […]
Military Help Sought to Check Islamist Rebel Violence in Central African Republic
Up to 80 percent of insurgent troops said to be mercenaries from Sudan, Chad.
October 3, 2013 By -
WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – With Islamist rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) continuing to commit atrocities unchecked, including violence against Christians, U.N. and rights officials are calling for outside military help to establish rule of law. Up to 80 percent of those in the rebel group known as Seleka are foreign combatants from Chad […]
Persecution News, One Year Later
Shining light amid vast darkness.
September 30, 2013 By -
Today, Sept. 30, marks one year since Morning Star News began distributing news of Christians persecuted for their faith. We had planned to debut the only independent news service exclusively covering persecution of Christians on Oct. 1, 2012, but when a grenade blast at a church in Nairobi, Kenya killed a 9-year-old boy and injured […]
Muslim Herdsmen, Islamic Extremists Kill More Christians in Nigeria
Ethnic Fulanis murder 15 in Kaduna state; Boko Haram suspected in slaying of Anglican priest in Yobe state.
September 29, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim herdsmen killed 15 Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna state Saturday morning (Sept. 28), two days after suspected Islamic extremists in Yobe state killed an Anglican pastor and his son, sources said. The ethnic Fulani Muslims in Kaduna state in central Nigeria, where attacks against Christians have increased markedly in the […]
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 -
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 Extremists Bomb Church in Pakistan, Attack Shopping Mall in Kenya
Scale of attack in Peshawar unprecedented; non-Muslims targeted in Nairobi.
September 22, 2013 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists today killed at least 78 people in an unprecedented church bombing in Pakistan, a day after Muslim militants in Kenya targeted non-Muslims in a mall attack that left at least 68 dead. Believed to be the deadliest assault on Christians in Pakistan, two suicide bombers struck All Saints […]