NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Incidents of violence against Christians in India’s Karnataka state have spiked since June, including hospitalization of a school helper this month after Hindu extremists beat her and marched her through the streets. Hindu extremists kicked and punched the 50-year-old Christian woman, who goes by the single name of Sannamma, after […]
Persecution of Christians Rockets in Karnataka, India
Hindu extremists drag woman to temple in effort to ‘reconvert’ her.
September 30, 2013 By - 2 Comments
Muslim Herdsmen, Islamic Extremists Kill More Christians in Nigeria
Ethnic Fulanis murder 15 in Kaduna state; Boko Haram suspected in slaying of Anglican priest in Yobe state.
September 29, 2013 By - 1 Comment
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim herdsmen killed 15 Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna state Saturday morning (Sept. 28), two days after suspected Islamic extremists in Yobe state killed an Anglican pastor and his son, sources said. The ethnic Fulani Muslims in Kaduna state in central Nigeria, where attacks against Christians have increased markedly in the […]
Christian in Saudi Arabia Convicted of Helping Woman to Convert
May 13, 2013 By -
BEIRUT (The Daily Star): A Saudi court convicted a Lebanese man for “evangelism” for encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity and helping her leave the country, local press reported over the weekend. A court in Khobar sentenced the man to six years in prison and 300 lashes, while another man convicted in the same case, a Saudi, was given two years in prison and 200 lashes. Both are planning to appeal. Under Saudi law, any form of proselytization is illegal, and Muslims who convert to another religion must be sentenced to death.
Nigerian Pastor, Family Narrowly Escape Village’s Easter Carnage
Suspected Fulani Muslims shoot indiscriminately in ethnic Attakar areas.
April 5, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
ATTAKAR, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The Rev. John Dakwat and his wife were at work in a back corner of their church building when they heard gunshots – just one in a series of attacks that killed at least 26 Christians in the border area between two states during Holy Week. Dakwat, who identified the […]
Bombings in Sudan Kill Christians, Destroy Church Building
Sudanese government continues terrorizing its own citizens.
March 27, 2013 By - 1 Comment
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – The Sudanese government’s bombing of predominantly Christian, ethnic Nuba civilians in South Kordofan state has taken more lives the first three months of this year – possibly including Muslims, sources said. Two civilians were killed and 12 seriously wounded on March 19 when a Sudan government Antonov airplane dropped […]
Rogue Soldier in Nigeria Allegedly Kills Infant, 5-year-old
Member of Special Task Force shoots family he was supposed to protect, relatives say.
March 25, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
TOROK, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The Nigerian mother of three, wounded from the same gunshot that killed her 9-month-old baby, asked her bleeding 7-year-old daughter to pray for their survival. The Christian mother’s second daughter, 5-year-old Nancy, also lay dead in the extended family compound in central Nigeria from the shooting by a soldier […]
Alleged Kidnapper Threatens Family of Christian Girl in Pakistan
Police refuse to arrest politician’s aide who allegedly forced 15-year-old to convert, marry.
February 6, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A powerful Pakistani politician’s aid who abducted a Christian girl from her home in Karachi has warned her parents that the same fate awaits their other daughters unless they drop charges against him and leave the city, the family said. Khursheed Bibi told Morning Star News that Ghaji Khan, […]
Christian Shot to Death in Somalia
Unknown gunmen kill father of five for leaving Islam.
December 14, 2012 By - 1 Comment
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Gunmen in central Somalia on Saturday (Dec. 8) killed an underground Christian who had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam, area sources said. Two unidentified masked men shot Mursal Isse Siad, 55, outside his home in Beledweyne, 206 miles (332 kilometers) north of Mogadishu, for leaving Islam, Muslim […]
Attackers in India’s Most Violent State Follow Christians even to Hospitals
Victims threatened as they try to recover.
November 23, 2012 By - Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Christians in India’s most religiously intolerant state have witnessed heightened violence in the past several weeks, including Hindu extremists attempting to slit the throat of a pastor as he lay hospitalized from a previous attack, sources said. Ruled by the Hindu extremist-backed Bharatiya Janata Party in a country […]