NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Asserting that Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island is not a place for Christians, suspected Muslim extremists threw acid on a 60-year-old Catholic priest on Friday (Sept. 13), sources said. The Rev. Joseph Anselmo Mwangamba stepped outside an Internet café on the outskirts of Zanzibar City, capital of the semi-autonomous island in the […]
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 […]
Christian Mother Killed, Boy Kidnapped in Somalia
Al Qaeda-linked rebels continue campaign to rid country of Christianity.
September 9, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the Al Shabaab rebel group are suspected of killing a Christian woman in one town last week and kidnapping a 13-year-old boy from another, sources said. The militants, who have vowed to rid Somalia of its underground church, are suspected of killing Fatuma Isak Elmi, 35, on […]
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 […]
Christians in Central African Republic Vulnerable as Chaos Continues
Threat of Islamic law looms as church suffers from Islamist coup.
September 4, 2013 By -
WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – More than five months after Islamist rebels seized control of the Christian-majority Central African Republic (CAR), Christians remain vulnerable to atrocities and the threat of imposition of Islamic law. Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took […]
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 […]
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Abduct Christian Mother of Two Young Children
Husband receives message from her; since then, only threats from kidnappers.
August 20, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists suspected to be rebel Al Shabaab militants have kidnapped a Christian mother of two young children in Somalia and threatened her husband because of their faith, her husband said. Three masked men abducted Shamsa Enow Hussein, 28, on Aug. 5 in Bulo Marer, Lower Shebelle Region, at 7 […]