JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected terrorists from the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group set off four bombs that hit two churches in Kano city on Monday night (July 29), killing at least 45 people, sources said. The Rev. Ramsey Noah, chairman of the Kano state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), told […]
Churches Bombed in Kano, Nigeria, Killing 45 People, Christian Leaders Say
Islamic extremist Boko Haram terrorists suspected.
July 31, 2013 By -
Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World
An antidote to the West's dysfunctional spin on Islam.
July 30, 2013 By -
(Morning Star News) – Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 million to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian […]
Pastor’s Daughter in Nigeria Allegedly Kidnapped, Forced to Convert to Islam
Sharia court in Niger state backs alleged abduction of 24-year-old woman.
July 26, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim leader in central Nigeria has abducted a pastor’s daughter and forced her to convert to Islam with the backing of a sharia (Islamic law) court, the church leader said. Raymond Uzoechina, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abuja, told Morning Star News by phone […]
Christian Students in Eritrea Punished for their Faith
Military beats them, threatens to keep them from attending university.
July 25, 2013 By -
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Eritrean authorities are punishing 39 high school students for their Christian faith, excluding them from a graduation ceremony and subjecting them to beatings and hard labor, according to Christian support organization Open Doors. After completing a four-month military training required in Eritrea, the students, including 11 girls, have been arrested […]
Dozens of Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
Attack on village follows massacre in adjacent area.
July 19, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen killed six Christians in an early morning attack yesterday on Dinu village in southern Plateau state, a month after Muslim Fulani herdsmen shot a Christian to death in a nearby village, Christian leaders said. The identities of the gunmen and the victims were not immediately known, though the Rev. […]
Mulinde, other Converts from Islam in Uganda Struggle to Recover
Even in Christian-majority nation, following Jesus can mean painful loss.
July 8, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Even in Christian-majority Uganda, two former sheikhs (Muslim teachers) and a mother of seven are struggling to recover from the fury Islamic extremists unleashed on them for converting. Senior Pastor/Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside Kampala has begun facial reconstruction after assailants who shouted “Allahu Akbar [God […]
Two Christians Slain by Islamists in Nigeria
Muslim ethnic Fulani mount attacks in Plateau state; Boko Haram strikes in Borno.
June 21, 2013 By -
WASE, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Ethnic Fulani Muslims killed a Christian in a village near here on Tuesday (June 18), less than a week after the Islamic extremist Boko Haram sect killed a pastor in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno. In the latest of a series of attacks this year in the Wase area, 216 […]
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Christian
Al Shabaab rebels publicly shoot young man for his faith.
June 20, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab in Somalia earlier this month publicly shot a young man to death after identifying him as a Christian, sources said. The insurgents in Jamaame district in southern Somalia had been monitoring 28-year-old Hassan Hurshe since his arrival from a Kenya in 2010 and […]
Explosion in Attack on Church in Kenya Injures 15
Two pastors among those seriously hurt in blast.
June 12, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Assailants on a motorbike threw an explosive device into a church compound in southeastern Kenya on Sunday (June 9), injuring 15 people. Two pastors were among the wounded from the explosion at an evangelistic service of Earthquake Miracle Ministries Church in Mrima village, near the coastal town of Likoni, Mombasa […]
Anti-Christian Hostility High in Zanzibar as Tanzania Mainland also Heats Up
Demolitions, land grabs continue unabated on semi-autonomous island.
May 18, 2013 By -
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist attacks and land grabs on this semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania have continued unabated even as violence has increased on the mainland. The May 5 bombing of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Arusha killed a 45-year-old woman, a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. Of […]