LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan have taken into custody a Christian convert from Hinduism and his Hindu co-worker for allegedly burning a Koran and a chart of Koranic verses. The Christian’s family and attorney, however, said Islamist extremist groups have falsely accused the two men in response to an increasing number of […]
Christian, Hindu in Custody in Pakistan on Accusation of Defiling Koran
Family of convert from Hinduism says Muslims retaliating for refusal to convert to Islam.
September 9, 2014 By -
Bible College, Churches Shut Down as Boko Haram Claims Territory in NE Nigeria
At least 350 Christians killed in the past week, church leaders say.
September 7, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Leaders of northeastern Nigeria’s Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) said Boko Haram attacks that have killed more than 300 Christians in the past week have forced the temporary closure of Kulp Bible College and many churches. In an emergency prayer message sent Saturday night (Sept. 6) to Morning […]
Woman in Yemen Burned to Death for Her Faith
Brother, brother-in-law said to have sabotaged cooking oil bottle.
August 29, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – On the morning of June 9 in southern Yemen, Saeed woke to the sound of screaming. He shot out of bed, pushed panicked family members aside and saw his wife stumbling out of their kitchen, engulfed in flames. His wife, Nazeera, had been preparing breakfast at about 9 a.m. when she […]
Muslim Herdsmen in Nigeria Kill 18 Christians in Plateau, Kaduna States
Slayings add to hundreds killed in areas of the two states this year.
August 19, 2014 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The 14 people killed in an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen last week in Plateau state were Christians killed for their faith, not cattlemen slain for their livestock, area Christians said. In Yelwa, where Muslim Fulani cattlemen have largely replaced Christian ethnicities over the years by means of slash-and-shoot attacks, […]
One Year after Historic Attacks, Egypt Has Yet to Aid Christians
Few church buildings restored as Copts struggle to rebuild their lives.
August 18, 2014 By -
ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – One year after the attacks, Mina Thabet can still see the ruins in his mind; a seemingly endless series of scorched, hollowed-out church buildings, schools, homes and businesses stretching out across Egypt. On Aug. 14, 2013, thousands of Muslims began a four-day rampage throughout the country seeking revenge for the military-backed, […]
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 -
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 […]
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 […]