NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels attacked a predominantly Christian town on Kenya’s coast Sunday night (June 15), selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people, area sources said. The estimated 50 Al Shabaab militants attacked two hotels, a police station and other buildings in Mpeketoni, […]
Christians Targeted in Massacre by Al Shabaab in Kenya
Deaths in coastal town of Mpeketoni could top those of Westgate mall attack.
June 16, 2014 By -
Religious Rights Violations in Indonesia Expected to Continue as Elections Approach
Islamic extremists said to be preparing to close more churches.
June 16, 2014 By -
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – The average of 56 incidents of religious rights violations churches suffered annually in Indonesia over the past seven years is not expected to abate following elections next month, sources said. Jakarta Christian Communications Forum records show churches suffered 392 incidents of religious rights violations, mainly closures and attacks, from 2007 […]
Nigerian Girl Who Escaped Boko Haram Abduction Aches for Schoolmates
Government, U.S., U.N. response inadequate, congressional subcommittee told.
June 12, 2014 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The 18-year-old high school student escaped from Boko Haram with her life, but she’s feeling sharp loss. One of more than 300 girls kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group on April 15 from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, Patience (last name withheld for […]
European Christians Face Threats, Loss of Livelihood for Expressing Faith
Plainly stating belief or acting on it meets with hostilities.
June 10, 2014 By -
(Morning Star News) – Battles over abortion and homosexuality can be white hot, with each side accusing the other of hate-speech and discrimination, but European Christians say merely stating their beliefs or acting in accordance with them has led to hatred and hostility. Often fought on battlefields where a “post-Christian” mindset is presupposed, European culture […]
Concerns about Religious Rights in Bhutan Raised at U.N. Council
Freedom of worship, legal recognition for Christians in democratic monarchy lacking, members say.
June 4, 2014 By -
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Morning Star News) – Several member countries of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have raised concerns over lack of rights for religious minorities in Bhutan, but legal recognition for Christians remains nowhere in sight. At the UNHRC’s recent Universal Periodic Review of the Buddhist nation in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States and other […]
Boko Haram Kills at Least 29 Christians in Gwoza Area, Nigeria
Pastor and others kidnapped, church buildings burned.
May 31, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria, May 31, 2014 (Morning Star News) – While international media sights have been justifiably fixed on 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok, Borno state, Islamic extremists last week killed Christians in the state’s Gwoza area nearly unnoticed, as they have for more than two years. On Borno state’s eastern border with Cameroon, as Chibok […]
Church Website Blocked as ‘Porn’ in Turkish Parliament, Legislator Says
Lawmaker demands investigation.
May 31, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Turkish legislator is demanding an investigation into why the website of at least one Turkish church was labeled pornography and blocked from computers at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM). While doing research on Wednesday (May 28) for a trip to Diyarbakir, Aykan Erdemir, a legislator from Bursa […]
Iran Steps Up Campaign of Terror against House Churches
Saeed Abedini tortured, beaten.
May 30, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Iran’s secret police and Revolutionary Guard are subjecting Christians to a continuing wave of arrests, and increased torture and brutal beatings, in an effort to crush the house-church movement, activists said. Human rights activists confirmed that there has been a noticeable increase this month in the number of reported assaults […]
One of Two Pastors Arrested in Bhutan Faces Funds-Collecting Charge
Initial accusations of proselytizing, prior permit dropped.
May 29, 2014 By -
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Morning Star News) – Prosecutors in this tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas are charging one of two pastors arrested in March with illegally collecting funds and have dropped charges against both of lacking permission to screen a film, sources said. The Office of the Attorney General in April charged M.B. Thapa, known […]
Second Woman in Jail for Alleged ‘Apostasy’ as Meriam Ibrahim Gives Birth in Prison
Like young mother on death row, her marriage is ruled illegitimate.
May 27, 2014 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – As Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, sentenced to death for leaving Islam, gave birth early this morning in prison, another Christian woman in Sudan has been jailed for “apostasy,” sources said. Ibrahim’s second child was born at about 3:30 a.m. in the Health Center Clinic of Omdurman Federal Prison for […]