JERUSALEM (Morning Star News) – Egyptian Christians in North Sinai feel unprotected and in danger following threats and a machine-gun attack that has driven several families from the border town of Rafah. “The situation of Christians in Sinai is very dangerous,” said Yusuf Zaki, spokesman for the Egypt Coptic Alliance. “They feel that they are not […]
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Christians in Egypt’s Sinai Fearful after Attack
Coptic families flee Rafah following threats, machine-gun fire.
October 3, 2012 By -
Christian Buildings Targeted in Military Conflict in Sudan
SPEC church structure in Omdurman left in ruins.
November 6, 2023 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – At least two Christian buildings were bombed last week amid fighting between rival military factions in Sudan, sources said. On Wednesday (Nov. 1) a Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) building in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, came under heavy shelling from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) at […]
Christians Wounded amid Military Fighting in Sudan
Gunmen storm Coptic Orthodox church in Omdurman.
May 24, 2023 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Among attacks on church buildings and mosques in Sudan after fighting broke out within the Sudanese military last month, a priest and other Christians were reportedly shot and injured in at least one assault with apparent anti-Christian motives. Unidentified gunmen attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of Mar Girgis (St. […]
Boko Haram Kidnaps Christian Leader in Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
Church of the Brethren in Nigeria district leader pleads for help.
January 7, 2020 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A leader of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) pleaded for help on a video released on Sunday (Jan. 5) after Islamic extremists with Boko Haram kidnapped him last week. The Rev. Lawan Andimi was abducted by terrorists of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP, known […]
Catholic Priest Attacked in Bethlehem after Giving Refuge to Tourists
Franciscan friar appears to be stabbed with a knife.
June 4, 2018 By -
(Morning Star News) – An unidentified man in Bethlehem lunged at a Catholic priest with what appears to be a knife on Friday (June 1) in a rare attack on a clergyman in the Palestinian Territories. At Bethlehem’s Milk Grotto, the Rev. Fadi Shallufi on Friday afternoon opened the chapel gates to foreign tourists, including women […]
Security Agents in Morocco Reportedly Detain Christian for 24 Hours
Harassment comes amid calls for religious freedom.
April 20, 2018 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Security police in Morocco detained a Christian for 24 hours after finding Christian literature in his backpack, according to published reports. Spanish news agency EFE reported that authorities stopped the 35-year-old Moroccan, whose name was not disclosed, as he came out of his home in Rabat on Wednesday morning (April […]
Hard-line Hindu Confesses to Attempted Murder of Pastor in Southern India, Police Say
Axe attack leaves house church leader within 30 minutes of death, doctor says.
April 9, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – A hard-line Hindu has confessed to attempting to murder a pastor in southern India as the Christian leader was praying at night, according to police. Pastor Madira Koti Reddy, who leads a house church in Rentachintala village, Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh state, on March 29 had gone to his […]
Hindu Extremists Turn Tribal, Animist Villagers against Christians in India
Assault drives five families out of village for nearly a week.
March 27, 2018 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – About 20 villagers questioning Christians gathered for worship in a home in Odisha state, India were animists who worshipped objects in nature and other gods, but Hindu nationalists had led them there. “Why have you left your ancestral faith and begun following the Christian faith?” a few of them asked, […]
Ferocity of Hindu Extremist Attacks Stuns Christians in Tamil Nadu, India
Assailants try to humiliate church members into becoming Hindus.
March 21, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Before Hindu extremists attacking a church in southern India this month repeatedly kicked a pastor’s wife in the face, rendering her unconscious, they tried to snatch her Bible from her. Persia Jacob, 38, clasped the Bible close to her heart as they tried to seize it. “I will die, but […]
Pastor’s Family Assaulted in Southern India
Police come under pressure to file counter charge against Christians.
March 14, 2018 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – On a recent Monday at noon in southern India, a pastor’s family in Telangana state noticed motorcycles parked outside their church gate and a gang of young men loudly reading the church banner. The banner of the church in Ramachandrapuram village, Karimngar District, included 2 Cor. 12:9, “My grace is sufficient […]