YANGON, Burma (Morning Star News) – Ethnic rebels who closed more than 100 churches in eastern Burma (Myanmar) in 2018 have allowed 51 Baptist churches to reopen, sources said. Ethnic Wa rebels of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) this week announced they had permitted 51 Baptist churches to reopen in northern Shan state after […]
Rebels in Burma Who Closed More than 100 Churches Allow 51 to Reopen
Congregations investigated as ‘extremists.’
December 20, 2019 By -
Crackdown on Christianity in China Ramps Up
Persecution rising toward levels under Chairman Mao, sources say.
December 16, 2019 By -
(Morning Star News) – As more government officials in China are empowered to close churches and a “social credit” system threatens to block Christians from schools, bank loans and jobs, authorities have taken harsh measures against more churches, sources said. Early Rain Covenant Church elder Qin Defu was sentenced to four years in prison on […]
Animists Opposing Christianity in India Find Allies in Maoists, Police, Hindu Extremists
Christians in tribal areas face persecution on many fronts.
December 4, 2019 By -
HYDERABAD, India (Morning Star News) – In an area of central India where tribal animists enlist Maoist militants to kill Christians who refuse to recant, Sodi Joga took it seriously when relatives threatened to kill him, his wife and 5-year-old daughter. “The villagers demanded that Joga and his family must partake in the cleansing ritual, […]
Fear of Hindu Extremist Violence Ends Christianity in Village in Northern India
Boy, 10, not spared in assault in Uttarakhand state.
December 2, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – The gruesome beating of a pastor’s family in northern India last month showed why a woman who was once Christian returned to Hinduism – and joined the mob attacking them. “I was among the crowd abusing and accusing the Christian family,” the 30-year-old mother, whose name is withheld for security […]
Falsely Accused of Killing Hindu Leader in India, Five Christians Ordered To Be Freed
The fight for their acquittal remains.
November 29, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – After spending 11 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit, five Christians in eastern India were finally ordered to be freed on Tuesday (Nov. 26), sources said. The Supreme Court of India issued a decision granting bail to the five Christians from Odisha (formerly Orissa) state […]
Four Christian Farmers Killed by Muslim Fulani Herdsmen in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sources Say
In Adamawa state, kidnapped university chaplain released.
November 25, 2019 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Nov. 14 killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria, attacking them with machetes as they slept in their beds, area residents said. The four members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Agban village, near Kagoro in Kaduna state’s Kaura County, were farmers who were killed in the […]
Pastor Beaten Unconscious Faces Charges by Hindu Extremists in Jharkhand, India
Family is attacked with axe, rods.
November 22, 2019 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A pastor and his family in eastern India are facing police charges after Hindu extremists with an axe, bamboo rods and wooden sticks attacked them in their home, leaving the pastor for dead, sources said. The eight assailants, including a policeman, who attacked pastor Basant Kumar Paul as he […]
Christian Poisoned by Muslim Brothers in Eastern Uganda, Sources Say
Church leader faced increasing opposition after leaving Islam.
November 22, 2019 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian father of four in Uganda was discharged from a hospital on Monday (Nov. 18), eight days after Muslim relatives poisoned his food for leaving Islam, sources said. Ronald Rajab Nayekuliza, 48, had eaten food tainted with pesticide at a memorial for his deceased father in Kakola village, […]
Coptic Christian Family Attacked in Upper Egypt; Adult Son in Intensive Care
Muslim assailant told them Christians forbidden to sit outside.
November 19, 2019 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian is in critical condition after he, his mother and brother were stabbed in Egypt on Sunday night (Nov. 17), according to media reports. The Muslim assailant in a village in Upper Egypt’s Minya Governorate first told them that Christians must not sit outside before attacking them, […]
Christian Begins Sentence of Exile in Remote, Islamist Area of Iran
Convert from Islam convicted of evangelizing.
November 18, 2019 By -
(Morning Star News) – A Christian in Iran convicted of conducting evangelistic activities began a mandated two years in exile this month in a remote area on the border with Pakistan, sources said. As part of a larger prison sentence delivered in 2013, Ebrahim Firoozi, 33, was sentenced to two years in exile in Sarbaz, […]