NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A recent convert from Islam arrested under suspicion of being a Muslim terrorist has been released, but not before his father tried to poison him for his faith, he said. Authorities in Western Kenya, preparing release papers for Hussein Hassan Mohammed, 30, after he served two weeks of his one-month […]
Convert from Islam in Kenya Released from Prison after Beatings, Attempted Poisoning
Muslim leaders seek to kill him for his faith even as police suspect him as Islamic terrorist.
August 14, 2014 By -
Massacre in Predominantly Christian Gwoza, Nigeria Said to Leave 100 Dead
Boko Haram shooting, fire-bombing and slashing terrify fleeing residents.
August 8, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – After weeks of sacking villages and destroying church buildings around Nigeria’s northeastern town of Gwoza, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram on Wednesday (Aug. 6) killed an estimated 100 people in the predominantly Christian town, sources said. The shooting, fire-bombing and slashing of men, women and children in Gwoza, Borno state, […]
More than 76 Christians Killed in Taraba State, Nigeria in Last Four Months
Well-armed mercenaries from Niger collaborate with ethnic Fulani herdsmen.
August 6, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Four Christians killed in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Taraba last week were among at least 76 slain in the state in the past five months, Christian leaders report. Well-armed Islamist mercenaries from Niger accompanied ethnic Fulani herdsmen in attacks on eight towns and villages across four local government areas in […]
Messianic Jewish Kibbutz in Israel Loses Appeal in Gay Wedding Party Row
Homosexual activism shutters marriage ceremony site near Jerusalem.
August 1, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A hotel’s outdoor wedding site near Jerusalem at the world’s only kibbutz for Messianic Jews remains shuttered after the kibbutz lost an appeal against a ruling calling for it to host homosexual wedding parties. Gay couples in Israel have forced the wedding hall at the Moshav (a kind of kibbutz) […]
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Mosul, Iraq Demands Response
Severe hardships afflict Christians in Islamist insurgency’s takeover.
July 29, 2014 By -
(Morning Star News) – Less than a week after Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) described the Islamist takeover of Mosul, Iraq as genocide and challenged the West to counteract it, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, published a trenchant piece on the Fox News website asserting that ISIS, the Sunni Muslim […]
Four Christians Killed in Bomb Attack in Northern Nigeria
Catholic church targeted in Kano.
July 29, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A bomb attack in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday (July 27) killed four Christians and a soldier, sources said. The bomb was hurled over a fence of St. Charles Catholic Church as parishioners were leaving a worship service, they said; Islamic extremists from the Boko Haram terrorist […]
Christians Killed in Nigeria in 1st Half of Year 91 Percent of Total Last Year, Group Says
Islamic extremist group Boko Haram responsible for most deaths.
July 27, 2014 By -
(Morning Star News) – Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and others killed 1,631 Christians in Nigeria for their faith in the first six months of 2014 – a figure that is 91 percent of the total Christians killed in the country in all of last year, according to advocacy group Jubilee Campaign. Last year 1,783 Nigerian […]
Sudanese Authorities Finally Allow Meriam Ibrahim to Leave Country
Nightmare for Christian mother sentenced to die for ‘apostasy’ ends.
July 24, 2014 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – After blocking her departure on a spurious charge of forged travel documents, Sudan today allowed a Christian mother sentenced to die over a false allegation of leaving Islam to leave the country, her attorney said. Having given birth to her second child while shackled to prison chains just two […]
Noted Convert in Egypt, Released in Appeal, Quickly Imprisoned Again
Mohammed Hegazy, now called Bishoy Armia Boulous, faces 2009 charges.
July 23, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A noted convert in Egypt released on bail this week for the appeal of his disputed conviction for “inciting sectarian violence” was quickly imprisoned again on equally controversial charges from 2009 of “defaming Islam,” his attorney said. Local security officials on Monday (July 21) turned Bishoy Armia Boulous, previously known […]
Soldier Shoots Civilian Christian in Sudan following Bombing of Church Building
Most of wounded man's church fled to Nuba Mountain caves.
July 16, 2014 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A Sudanese government soldier on Saturday (July 12) shot a Christian near his farm in South Kordofan state, seriously wounding him, church sources said. Akhnouk Jamal, 27, a member of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS), sustained wounds on his back and upper part of his stomach when a […]