NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Asserting that Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island is not a place for Christians, suspected Muslim extremists threw acid on a 60-year-old Catholic priest on Friday (Sept. 13), sources said. The Rev. Joseph Anselmo Mwangamba stepped outside an Internet café on the outskirts of Zanzibar City, capital of the semi-autonomous island in the […]
Assassins of Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti Confess, Officials Say
Leader of Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban captured with two others.
September 17, 2013 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The killers of Pakistan’s first Christian to become a federal cabinet member, Shahbaz Bhatti, have confessed to the crime, Bhatti’s brother and security sources said. Paul Bhatti, brother of the slain Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, told Morning Star News that security officials and a senior government minister had told […]
Muslim Herdsmen, Soldiers in Nigeria Kill Three Christians, Wound Mother
Latest anti-Christian murders in Plateau state similar to previous attacks.
September 16, 2013 By -
GURA DABWAM, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – In the latest night raids by Muslim herdsmen and soldiers in Plateau state, a Christian and his two teenage sons this month were killed and his wife wounded, Christian leaders said. Ethnic Fulani herdsmen and soldiers on Sept. 3 raided Gura Dabwam village, near Jos in Gyel District, at […]
Swift Trial of Moroccan Christian at Odds with ‘Moderate Morocco’
Convert from Islam reviled for ‘apostasy,’ convicted in one week.
September 13, 2013 By -
TIZI OUZOU, Algeria, (Morning Star News) – The swift conviction of a Christian for “proselytizing” in Morocco last week shows a harsher reality than the moderate face the country presents to the West, sources said. A court in Taounate, a town in northern Morocco of some 33,000 people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Fez, […]
Christian Widows in India Beaten for Refusing to ‘Reconvert’ to Hinduism
One left homeless; another dragged to Hindu temple, left unconscious.
September 11, 2013 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Laxmi Sovi, a Christian widow in India’s Chhattisgarh state, heard her door opening one morning last month, she could not have guessed that by the next day she would be hospitalized and her home demolished. Three Hindu extremists identified only as Veeru, Chaytu and Mangru barged into Sovi’s house […]
Muslim Herdsmen Kill Six Christians outside Jos, Nigeria
Guerrilla-style attacks on Christian villages continue.
September 10, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim, ethnic Fulani herdsmen shot five members of a Christian family to death last week, including a 7-year-old boy, and killed another Christian as they fled, relatives said. Alleged cattle theft may have been the pretext for targeting the predominantly Christian agrarian community, but the gunmen struck the family of […]
Christian Mother Killed, Boy Kidnapped in Somalia
Al Qaeda-linked rebels continue campaign to rid country of Christianity.
September 9, 2013 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the Al Shabaab rebel group are suspected of killing a Christian woman in one town last week and kidnapping a 13-year-old boy from another, sources said. The militants, who have vowed to rid Somalia of its underground church, are suspected of killing Fatuma Isak Elmi, 35, on […]
Armed Muslims in Nigeria Kill Christians in their Homes
Ethnic Fulani herdsmen attack villages on Kaduna/Plateau state border.
September 6, 2013 By -
ADU, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gabriel Anthony, 25, was steeped in quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 1) in this northern Nigerian village when he heard gunshots. “Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,” Anthony told Morning Star News. “I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.” A half […]
Christians in Central African Republic Vulnerable as Chaos Continues
Threat of Islamic law looms as church suffers from Islamist coup.
September 4, 2013 By -
WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – More than five months after Islamist rebels seized control of the Christian-majority Central African Republic (CAR), Christians remain vulnerable to atrocities and the threat of imposition of Islamic law. Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took […]