NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – India’s Christians suffered an alarming escalation of violence, hatred and systematic oppression last year, according to the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI-RLC). The 601 cases of persecution against Christians in India in 2023 marked a 45 percent increase over the 413 instances recorded the previous […]
Persecution of Christians Escalates in India, EFI Reports
Alarming increase of cases in Uttar Pradesh and other states.
March 27, 2024 By -
Pastor, His Family and Other Christians Killed in Nigeria
Dozens of others wounded in highway ambush.
March 27, 2024 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Terrorists on March 13 ambushed and killed an African Church pastor, his wife and son along with several other Christians on a highway in Taraba state, northeastern Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Abah Jacob, wife Marian Abah and their son were slain with the other Christians near Mararaba […]
Herdsmen Kill Pastor, Five other Christians in Central Nigeria
Dozens of others sustain gunshot wounds.
March 26, 2024 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor and five other Christians in Nasarawa state, central Nigeria in attacks on Friday (March 22) and Sunday (March 24), sources said. In Keana County’s Kadarko area, community leader Denis Utsa said Fulani herdsmen on Friday attacked the predominantly Christian village of Tse-Abir Azer […]
Unsafe Conditions Kill Christian Sewer Workers in Pakistan
Lack of protective gear takes two lives.
March 26, 2024 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News)– Rukhsana Asif, a Christian mother of two children in Faisalabad, Pakistan, was devastated when she learned that her husband and his cousin had died from poisonous gas while cleaning a clogged sewer manhole. Her husband, Asif Masih, was off work on March 17 when he received a call to […]
Hope for Christian 22 Years on Death Row for ‘Blasphemy’
Supreme Court seeks Islamic body’s opinion on evidence.
March 25, 2024 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – In a significant move, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the country’s top Islamic body to advise on whether content that has left a Catholic on death row for 22 years was in fact blasphemous, sources said. Attorney Rana Abdul Hameed said the top court on March […]
Muslim Extremists Kill Christian Convert in Kenya
Assailants injure three other evangelists from Uganda.
March 22, 2024 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on March 8 ambushed and killed an evangelist from Kenya and severely injured three others from Uganda near a town on Kenya’s border with Uganda, sources said. The four Christian workers were returning to Bugiri, Uganda after a four-day outreach in Kenya when they were attacked near Busia, […]
Muslims in Indonesia End Church’s Meetings in Home
Local residents object to use of house for worship.
March 22, 2024 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Muslim residents objecting to house-church worship in western Indonesia on Sunday (March 17) compelled the pastor to discontinue using her home for services, sources said. On the western tip of Java Island, dozens of Muslim residents gathered outside the house after worship ended in Saga Bunar, Balaraja Sub-District, Tangerang […]
Muslim ‘Suitor’ Kidnaps 13-Year-Old Christian Girl in Pakistan
Muslim father fulfills threat to kidnap Christian’s daughter.
March 21, 2024 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Two months after a Muslim told a Christian in Pakistan he could not stop him from taking the Christian’s 13-year-old daughter for marriage to his 28-year-old Muslim son, the girl was kidnapped on March 13, her father said. Shakeel Masih said his daughter, Roshni Shakeel, had spurned the […]
Christian Family in India Beaten, Separated from Children
Tribal villagers expel couple for refusing to renounce Christ.
March 20, 2024 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple in central India have not seen their two young children for more than a month after an attack by followers of traditional tribal religion drove them from their village for refusing to recant their faith. Aayatu Ram Podiyami, 35, was assaulted twice in Gupanpal village, Sukma District, […]
Christian Slain for Leading Muslims to Faith in Christ
Body found with note in Arabic saying he was warned.
March 18, 2024 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda on March 8 killed a Christian for leading Muslims to faith in Christ, sources said. Kiisa Masolo, 45, had returned to his home in Nakitiku village, Bunabuka parish, Bubeza Sub-County in Sironko District at 7 p.m. after preaching on the streets of Nakaloke and Busajjabwankuba […]