LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Hospital officials are trying to pressure family members of a Christian who died from lack of treatment to drop charges against them by ordering their arrest, sources said. A court in Pakistan has ordered police to register a case against family members and colleagues of Christian sanitation worker Irfan Masih, […]
Hospital in Pakistan Accused of Letting Christian Die Requests Arrest of Relatives, Colleagues
Medical superintendent tries to pressure family to drop case, sources say.
June 27, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
Pastor Jailed in Burma Falls Ill
65-year-old Baptist leader on trial for ‘spying.’
June 20, 2017 By - 1 Comment
YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – One of two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma army last Christmas Eve is suffering deteriorating health from malnutrition, sources said. Pastor Dom Dawng Nawng Latt, 65, has become weak, lacks energy and suffers from asthma and diarrhea, according to his wife and a lawyer for Nawng Latt and fellow […]
Christian Father of 2-Year-Old in Pakistan Jailed on Flimsy Blasphemy Charge, Brother Says
Arrested amid government crack-down on online ‘blasphemy.’
June 18, 2017 By - 1 Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Amid a government campaign in Pakistan against “blasphemous” content online, a Christian was arrested on Friday (June 16) when a Muslim accused him of blasphemy after a dispute over a repair bill, sources said. After millions of Pakistanis last month began receiving text messages from the government warning them against […]
Christian Teacher Killed, another Abducted along with Muslim in Northeastern Kenya
Al Shabaab militants suspected.
June 14, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Suspected Al Shabaab militants walked into an elementary school compound in northeastern Kenya on May 31 and shot a Christian teacher to death, sources said. Elly Oloo Ojiema was shot at Fafi Primary School in Fafi, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Garissa. “The suspected Al Shabaab militants entered the […]
Young Christian Woman Said To Be Kidnapped Outside Cairo, Egypt
Third apparent abduction in area since accidental shooting of Muslim.
June 12, 2017 By - 1 Comment
CAIRO (Morning Star News) – A young Coptic woman in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt remains missing after her disappearance last week from an area where Muslim attacks against Christians have surged, sources said. Suzan Ashraf Rawy, 22, left for work by foot from her home in Al Khosous on the morning of June 5 but […]
Christian Sanitation Worker in Pakistan Dies after Hospital Refuses to Treat Him, Family Says
Muslim doctors said he was ‘unclean,’ brother says.
June 5, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan died on Thursday (June 1) after Muslim doctors refused to treat him for poisonous gas he was exposed to in a sewer, sources said. Doctors at Civil Hospital Medical refused to treat 28-year-old Irfan Masih of Umerkot City, Sindh Province, saying they did not […]
Christians Shot to Death in Attack on Marawi, Philippines
Those refusing to recite Islamic creed are targeted.
June 1, 2017 By - 2 Comments
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Among 19 civilians an Islamic extremist group in the Philippines killed after storming a city on May 23 were eight Christians shot for refusing to recite the Muslim creed, government investigators told local press. They were the first Christians slain in the ongoing battle for Marawi City, capital of Lanao […]
Christian Killed in Islamic Extremist Attack in Northeastern Kenya
Suspected Al Shabaab rebels shoot two people to death.
May 19, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Al Shabaab militants are suspected in the killing of two people, at least one a Christian, in a May 12 gun attack in northeastern Kenya, sources said. Five suspected rebels from the Somali Islamic extremist group targeted non-Muslim quarry workers in El Wak, near the Somali border in Kenya’s North […]
Church Building, Pastor’s Home Burned Down in Tamil Nadu State, India, Sources Say
Young hard-line Hindu men threatened Christian leader, he says.
May 17, 2017 By - 1 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Hindus in southern India, upset that members of their caste-based group have become Christians, burned down a church building and the pastor’s home this month, sources said. After pastor John Muller and his pregnant wife left for a store on May 3, the assailants in Tamil Nadu state’s Attipattu […]
Muslim Extremists in Uganda Threaten to Kill Family of Pastor
Islamists seek revenge for pursuit of legal case against them.
May 12, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 12, 2017 (Morning Star News) – A pastor in eastern Uganda who relocated after an Islamist attack has had to shift to yet another site, but he can only visit his family there briefly as his life is in danger, his wife said. Muslims continue to track pastor Christopher James Kalaja of […]