NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian welder who oversees a home fellowship near Mumbai is on pain-killers with chest and back injuries after some 25 Hindu extremists on Jan. 24 beat him with iron bars, sources said. Threatening to kill him if he continued preaching and practicing his faith, members of the Hindu extremist […]
Hindu Extremist Mob Beats Christian House Church Leader near Mumbai, India
Welder among first to use new hotline for violence against Christians.
February 5, 2015 By - 1 Comment
Charlie Hebdo Protestors Ransack Christian School in Pakistan, Demand Closure
Security said to be lax just weeks after massacre at school in Peshawar.
January 29, 2015 By - 1 Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Among several protests across Pakistan against a French satire magazine’s cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, hundreds of Muslims in a terrorist-infested northwestern province on Monday (Jan. 26) stormed a Christian school, demanding its closure. Some 300 protestors from local schools and colleges entered the premises of Panel High School for […]
Slain Ministry Leader in Nigeria Mourned as Dedicated Servant to the Poor
Father of two brought school, health and clothing to thousands.
January 27, 2015 By - 6 Comments
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Jan. 23) killed a father of two in Taraba state whose pastoral ministry had brought education, medicine and clothing to thousands of impoverished people, sources said. Pastor Joshua Adah was returning to his mission station in Bantaje, a village near Jalingo, from an evangelistic outreach […]
Sudan Arrests Another South Sudanese Pastor
Second church leader in less than three weeks held without charges.
January 20, 2015 By - 1 Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The second pastor of South Sudanese descent in less than three weeks has been arrested without charges in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, sources said. Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Peter Yein Reith of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church on Jan. 11 as he […]
Christian in Egypt Gunned Down
Family of victim believes alleged killers are trying to intimidate them into dropping charges in 2013 murders.
January 17, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Police in Upper Egypt have arrested a man who, according to eyewitnesses, gunned down a Christian on Tuesday (Jan. 13) for what family members believe was their refusal to drop charges against the suspect’s relatives in other religiously motivated killings in 2013. Hasan Baghdadi was arrested on Wednesday (Jan. 14) […]
Christian Shot to Death Outside Church in Mombasa, Kenya
Day after young man killed, 70-year-old Christian is wounded.
January 15, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
MALINDI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Police in Kenya’s coastal area are searching for a gunman who shot a Christian dead at the gate leading to a church worship site on Sunday (Jan. 11) in Mombasa. One of two men following 25-year-old George Muriki as he arrived with two church members at the gate […]
Controversy over ‘Reconversions’ in India Leads to Proposal to Outlaw Conversions
Government also proposes alternative holiday to Christmas.
January 6, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Hindu nationalist drive to “reconvert” non-Hindus over the Christmas season foundered, but protests against the campaign led to an unexpected consequence: a proposal to ban on all conversions except “reconversions” to Hinduism. During an Advent season that saw the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi propose a “Good […]
Attacks by Islamic Extremists in Nigeria Leave at Least 28 Christians Dead
Fulani herdsmen, suicide bomber ring in new year with violence in three states.
January 3, 2015 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani gunmen on Friday (Jan. 2) killed 15 Christians in an area of Kaduna state where 10 others were killed on Dec. 27, ending a week of violence in Nigeria in which at least 28 died. The ethnic Fulani herdsmen killed the 15 Christians in Ambe-Madaki village, in Kaduna’s […]
Motive for Murder of Evangelist in Colombia Remains Mystery in Spite of Confession
Indigenous tribal brothers admit killing outspoken Christian but won’t say why.
December 31, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
AUSTIN, Texas (Morning Star News) – Two brothers have confessed to the murder in a west Colombian mountainside jungle of a lay evangelist whom a local Roman Catholic priest had threatened, sources said. The brothers of the indigenous Nasa tribe, also called Paez, have refused to tell investigators why they killed Pabel A. Losada Trujillo, […]
Boko Haram Kills More Christians as it Expands ‘Caliphate’ in Nigeria
Islamic extremist rebels seize towns in Borno state, kidnap 20 women.
December 7, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Boko Haram killed 11 people and kidnapped 20 women as they attacked predominantly Christian Lassa in northeastern Nigeria state last week, the third town a three weeks that the terrorist group claims as part of its caliphate. The Boko Haram insurgents, who seek to impose sharia (Islamic […]