Mother in Somalia Loses Husband, Home for Accepting Christ

Former Muslim showed Jesus Film to relatives.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of three children in Somalia is struggling to survive after her Muslim relatives drove her from their home and threatened to kill her for accepting Christ, she said. The 31-year-old woman’s husband recently divorced her following her expulsion from the family homestead in Jamaame village, Kismayo in March, […]

Ex-Addict in Somalia Driven from Home for Accepting Christ

Once homeless convert finds himself living on the street again.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Muslim parents in southern Somalia were overjoyed to see their missing 20-year-old son, a drug addict, return home free of substance abuse this month. When they discovered that his transformation sprang from putting his faith in Christ, however, they drove him from their home in Hararoba, near Afmadow […]

Mother of Three in Somalia Loses All Relatives for Receiving Christ

Husband drives her from one home, parents from another.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim husband of a woman in Somalia sent her back to her parents for accepting Christ – without their three young children – and then her parents drove her away for sharing the gospel with her sister, sources said. Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten and then ostracized by her […]

Christian in Somalia Loses Voice in Attack by Wife

In-laws demand divorce from father of four.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian convert from Islam in Somalia has lost his speech after his Muslim wife hit him with a heavy metallic object for practicing his faith, sources said. In a town in Somalia’s Lower Juba Region undisclosed for security reasons, 35-year-old Abdulai Ramadan suffered the attack on Jan. 20 after […]

Christian Mother Beaten by Husband in Somalia Flees

Convert leaves behind two children, 4 and 6.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of two young children in Somalia had to leave them this week after her husband seriously injured her upon learning that she had left Islam for Christianity, she said. Fatuma (surname withheld for security reasons), 30, put her trust in Christ on Oct. 15 at an underground church […]

Christian Convert in Somalia Suffers Third Attack

Muslim relatives suspect him of leading Christian worship.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A convert from Islam in Somalia who was attacked in May and July was again assaulted on Oct. 5 after Muslim relatives suspected him of leading Christian prayer meetings, he said. Mohammad Abdul was leading worship behind locked doors at his home in an undisclosed town in Lower Juba Region […]

Muslim Relatives Attack Christian, Wife and Children in Somalia

Convert from Islam assaulted a second time.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in Somalia attacked a second time in Lower Juba Region on July 8, wounding him in the stomach, breaking his wife’s ankle and beating his children. Mohammad Abdul had survived a May 5 knife attack by his Muslims relatives on the outskirts of […]

Christian Convert in Somalia Wounded, Loses Family

Muslim relatives attack him after learning of his faith.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Somalia was seriously wounded for putting his faith in Christ this month and lost his wife and five children, sources said. Mohammad Abdul, 40, survived a knife attack by his Muslim relatives on the outskirts of Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region, on […]

Al Shabaab Suspected in Killing of Six Christians in Somalia

Merchants were spreading gospel among Muslims, sources say.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Six Kenyan merchants killed by suspected militants from the Islamic extremist Al Shabaab on Friday (March 29) in the Somali border town of Dhobley were likely attacked for spreading Christianity, sources said. The six secret Christians had been selling plastic utensils and other household goods in Dhobley, in Somalia’s Lower […]

Somali Pastor of Underground Church in Kenya Wounded

Wife and son injured in separate assaults.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Somali pastor of a secret fellowship in Kenya is still recovering from an infected wound after attacks on him, his wife and child for leaving Islam, he said. The 33-year-old pastor, who was still in pain this week as he received medical treatment for wounds on his hand and […]