ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen early Wednesday (Sept. 13) kidnapped a pastor and two other Christians in Jos East County, Plateau state, Nigeria, sources said. The Rev. Usman Umaru of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) was kidnapped at about 5:40 a.m. when the gunmen broke into his home on the ECWA premises, said […]
Pastor, Two other Christians Kidnapped in Nigeria
ECWA leader taken from his home early Wednesday morning.
September 14, 2023 By -
Christian Couple Jailed, Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan
Three young children are left without parents.
September 12, 2023 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The three young children of a Christian couple jailed on baseless charges of desecrating the Koran in Lahore, Pakistan last week have no relatives to care for them and are extremely upset, a rights advocate. Shaukat Masih, 33, and his 28-year-old wife Kiran have been in judicial custody since Saturday […]
Terrorists Kill Christian Couple in Taraba State, Nigeria
Others wounded, six kidnapped in attack.
September 10, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said. “Six Christians were kidnapped by terrorists in the Mile Six area of Jalingo,” area resident Emmanuel Moses told Morning Star News in […]
Seminary Student Burned to Death in Attack in Nigeria
Catholic dies in terrorists' attempted kidnapping of priest in Kaduna state.
September 8, 2023 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night (Sept. 7) in a failed kidnapping attempt, sources said. In an attack at about 8 p.m. on the rectory of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Fadan Kamantan, in southern […]
Muslims with Machete, Club Halt Worship in Indonesia
Police dismiss case, saying assailant was insane.
September 5, 2023 By -
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – A machete-wielding Muslim threatened to kill members of a house church in Indonesia as he and family members on Aug. 29 broke up a worship service, sources said. In West Sumatra Province, the Sola Gratia congregation of Bethel Indonesia Church (Gereja Bethel Indonesia, or GBI) was meeting the evening […]
Pastor Shot after Receiving Islamist Threats in Pakistan
Assailants ordered him to recite Islamic profession of faith.
September 4, 2023 By -
Update: Police in Pakistan on Friday (Sept. 29) charged the Rev. Eleazar Sidhu with making false allegations after he admitted that a gunshot wound he had blamed on Islamic extremists was self-inflicted. Full updated story published on Oct. 1. The initial story follows: LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A pastor was shot and wounded by […]
Christians Object to Injustices following Attacks in Pakistan
Police arrest Christians as chief claims ‘foreign conspiracy.’
September 2, 2023 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Church and rights leaders in Pakistan are demanding an investigation into anti-Christian rioting in Jaranwala amid illegal arrests of area Christians and a police claim of a “foreign conspiracy” to create religious strife, sources said. Violent Muslim mobs incited by hard-line Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) attacked churches and homes […]
Forced Conversion/Marriage of Minority Girls Targeted in Pakistan
Supreme Court orders government to respond to complaint.
August 31, 2023 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for child rape, sources said. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Ayesha Malik gave […]
Police in India Press Churches to Provide Information on Activities
Notices have chilling effect on worship gatherings.
August 24, 2023 By -
HYDERABAD, India, (Morning Star News) – Police in India have issued questionnaires to at least 40 churches in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state seeking information that Christians fear will be used by Hindu extremists to attack them, sources said. The questionnaires are intrusive and discriminatory, as they were sent only to Christians, church leaders said. “We […]
Evangelist, other Christians in Uganda Assaulted
Islamist ire kindled at evangelistic event.
August 23, 2023 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said. Robert Faisali Miya, a 34-year-old father of four, was also struck with a thorny object and stomped on during the […]