NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – African shamans wielding clubs and stones stormed a church on a Ugandan island in Lake Victoria on Dec. 22, sending about 30 Christians to hospitals for treatment, the pastor said. Pastor Sarah Kalaja of Kisaba Prayer Palace Christian Church at Kisaba landing site on Bukasa Island, told Morning […]
African Shamans in Uganda Injure Christians, Damage Church Building
Animist leaders attack on orders of spirit-god of Lake Victoria, they say.
December 30, 2014 By -
Displaced Iraqi Christians Ponder an Iraq without Christians
Wait out the bloodbath and return home, or end the church’s historic presence?
December 29, 2014 By -
ERBIL, Iraq (Morning Star News) – As he drove across the bridge, slowly following other cars, the scene unfolding around the pastor was complete chaos. In the distance he could hear mortar rounds hitting their targets as hundreds of other displaced people streamed by one side of his car with whatever they could carry on […]
Muslim Fulani Gunmen in Nigeria Kill Infant among 15 Christians Slain in Two Attacks
Herdsmen launch early morning raids in Taraba and Kaduna states.
December 29, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed five Christians in one state, including an infant boy, and 10 in another on Dec. 17. In Taraba state in the northeast, more than 100 Muslim Fulani herdsmen invaded Sabon Gida Shagogo village in the Donga Local Government Area in the early morning, area […]
South Sudanese Pastor Jailed after Preaching at Church in North Khartoum, Sudan
The Rev. Yat Michael detained since Dec. 14.
December 28, 2014 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Security personnel in Sudan have held a pastor from South Sudan since Dec. 14 after he delivered a sermon at an embattled North Khartoum church. Agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested the Rev. Yat Michael of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church after Sunday worship […]
Pastor in Kenya Fears His Life Is in Imminent Danger from Islamic Extremists
Convert of Somali descent says Al Shabaab has put bounty on his head.
December 18, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Kenya of Somali descent whom Islamic extremist Al Shabaab militants have threatened for leaving Islam fears he soon could be killed. Somali Al Shabaab rebels have offered a reward to anyone who kills the Rev. Mahad H. Birik, and after a video of him describing his conversion […]
Islamist Herdsmen, Mercenaries Attack Christians in Benue, Nigeria from Nasarawa
Five killed in predominantly Roman Catholic community.
December 17, 2014 By -
MAKURDI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state and Islamist mercenaries from outside Nigeria attacked villages in neighboring Benue state on Sunday (Dec. 14), killing five Christians, sources said. Inhabited almost entirely by ethnic Idoma farmers, the Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa state, with mercenaries from Chad and Niger, razed several villages, destroying […]
Gunmen Kill Christian Widow in Jos, Nigeria Bomb Blasts
Attack fulfills Boko Hara objectives of killing Christians and destabilizing government.
December 13, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – For Jummai Sunday, 63, Thursday (Dec. 11) began like any other for the Christian widow. After a morning devotional, she visited sick or bereaved families, and then returned home to gather items for sale at her market spot near the bus terminal area in Jos, Nigeria. She survived the twin […]
Christians Protest Violence as Church Burning Hits New Delhi, India
Government under increasing pressure as impunity for assailants continues.
December 9, 2014 By -
(Morning Star News) – Christians in New Delhi, unaccustomed to religious hostilities more common in remote areas, erupted in protest as violence hit the capital last week. Church leaders wrote to national officials as the Advent season brought three disturbing incidents, including an apparent arson attempt. The interior of one of the larger church buildings in the […]
As Injustice Escalates, Senator in Pakistan Seeks Solution to ‘Blasphemy’ Violence
Christian mother of five appeals death sentence; blogger in hiding is arrested.
December 5, 2014 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – In the span of one month, a Christian blogger who hid for more than three years on a blasphemy charge was arrested; a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for allegedly speaking ill of Muhammad filed her appeal with the Supreme Court; and a mob tortured and […]
Police in Sudan Attack Worshipping Congregation, Arrest 38 Christians
Church members released after paying fine.
December 3, 2014 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Police in North Khartoum, Sudan yesterday beat, arrested and fined 38 Christians worshipping at Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, sources said. After nearly two weeks of raiding and demolishing church property, officers armed with guns and batons arrived at the church compound at 6:30 a.m. on two trucks accompanied […]