NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Upset over conversions to Christianity, hardline Muslims in an area of eastern Uganda this month sprayed a newly Christian family with acid and beat a former mosque leader, sources said. In Intonko village, Namutumba District, Muslim relatives on March 8 sprayed acid on Juma Waiswa, 38, his 32-year-old wife Nasimu […]
Family Sprayed with Acid for Leaving Islam
In same district, former mosque leader beaten.
March 22, 2022 By -
Christian in Pakistan Arrested, Tortured on Blasphemy Charges
False accusation threatens 54-year-old father’s job, retirement fund.
March 21, 2022 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Pakistan beat and arrested a Christian on Tuesday (March 16) for allegedly making blasphemous comments on social media and later tortured him into confessing guilt, sources said. Cybercrime officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Gujranwala Circle raided the Lahore home of Fansan Shahid, 54, shortly after midnight […]
Young Woman Who Left Islam Killed in Iraq
Outspoken convert was preparing to be baptized.
March 16, 2022 By -
(Morning Star News) – A young woman preparing to be baptized in Erbil, Iraq last week was instead killed in a possible “honor” killing for converting to Christianity, with Muslim family members reportedly suspected, according to local media. The body of Eman Sami Maghdid, 20, was found on March 7 bound with tape and discarded […]
Catholic Church Worker Killed in Kidnapping of Priest in Nigeria
Christians attacked in Kaduna, Plateau and Niger states.
March 10, 2022 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A church security guard was killed in the kidnapping of a Roman Catholic priest at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday (March 8) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. The security guard, identified only as Luka, was killed in the abduction of the Rev. Joseph Akeke of St. John’s Catholic Church […]
Pastor Tied to Post, Beaten in Delhi, India
Police slow to act in Hindu extremist attack, he says.
March 9, 2022 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi last month tied a pastor to a post at a busy intersection and beat him before hundreds of people, but police have yet to make arrests, sources said. Accusing Pastor Kelom Kalyan Tete of forcible conversion as they beat him, Hindu […]
Church Building Locked, Leaders Arrested in Sudan
Hardline Muslims upset with presence of Christian worship.
March 6, 2022 By -
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Church leaders in Sudan were detained and questioned last month after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut, sources said. Hardline Muslims locked the building of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in Al Hag Abdalla, about 85 miles southeast of Khartoum in […]
Hindu Extremists Try to Kill Pastor, Wife in Northern India, He Says
Villagers accuse church leader of fraudulent conversion.
March 3, 2022 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Pastor Rakesh Babu was about to go to bed one night earlier this year in northern India when eight Hindu extremists broke into his house, beat and choked him and slit his wife’s throat, he said. The eight assailants, including two women, who had accused him of luring people to […]
Islamic Terrorists Kill Three Christians in Chibok, Nigeria
Church building burned in another attack on area in northeast.
February 27, 2022 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday (Feb. 25) killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents say. Besides the Christians killed in the attack on Kautikari village, Borno state, at about 5 p.m., a Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) worship […]
New Christian Seriously Injured after Church Service
Muslim 20-year-old accepted Christ that morning.
February 18, 2022 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Before Sadi Bwanga could make it home from the church service in eastern Uganda where he had just put his faith in Christ, Muslim relatives found out and intercepted him. Bwanga, 20, had prayed to receive Christ at the Feb. 6 church service in Kadama, Kibuku District that morning, said […]
Evangelist Beaten, Tied Up to Be Burned for Converting
Muslim relatives attack after funeral.
February 16, 2022 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a Christian evangelist on Feb. 6 beat and tied him up to be burned to death after he returned home for a funeral in eastern Uganda, he said. Malingumu Bruhan, 34, returned to Kaliro District for his grandfather’s funeral in Muhira village, Nawaikoke, and then accepted his […]